Conservation News ~ 22 October 2021

• As seizures of poached giant clams rise, links to ivory trade surface
• Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?
• Forest biomass-burning supply chain is producing major carbon emissions: Studies
• Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds
• 30×30 is not a one-size-fits-all biodiversity target (commentary)
• Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to stop logging in Borneo
• Key Biden Climate Plan Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition
• 120,000+ US Sites Feared To Handle Harmful PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals
• "The United States Has More Abandoned Wells Than We Thought"
• "G-20 Climate Talks Stall Ahead of Rome Leaders’ Summit"
• "La Niña Is Back. Here’s What That Means."
• "Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Raises Ire Of Environmentalists"
• Industry Resists Decommissioning Decades-Old California Offshore Oil Rigs
• Drought Brings Rough Year For U.S. Hydropower. Is It a Long-Term Shift?
• "Flood Insurance Rates Are Spiking For Many, To Account For Climate Risk"
• Florida Mulls The Unthinkable: Feeding Starving Manatees In The Wild
• Beyond tree planting: When to let forests restore themselves
• Drones are a knife in the gunfight against poaching. But they’re leveling up
• Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities
• Oil company at center of Orange County spill received millions in federal relief
• She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award
• "Biden Administration Moves To Curtail Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’"
• "Senate Hearing On Sams To Head National Parks Set For Oct. 19"
• Amid Massive Roundup Cancer Suits, Migrant Farmworkers Are Left Out
• "Environmentalists Secure Water Rights For Great Salt Lake"
• "Senate Democrats Release 9 Spending Bills"
• "US Formally Removes Colorado River Fish’s Endangered Status"
• "Satellites Reveal The Secrets Of Water-Guzzling Farms In California"
• "How Industrial Chicken Production Is Breeding The Next Pandemic"
• "Factbox - COP26 in Glasgow: Who Is Going And Who Is Not?"
• "Russia Allows Methane Leaks At Planet’s Peril"
• In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees
• Project maps soundscape of northern Adriatic and impact on marine life
• Light exhibits at Indonesian botanic garden spark commercialization concerns
• Mangrove photo contest winners reveal majesty of these coastal forests
• Regulators can no longer rubber-stamp expansion of the oil and gas industry
• Five critically endangered monkeys shot dead in Vietnam
• "Biden Focuses On Climate, Families In Trimmed $2T Plan"
• "Parade Of Powerful Storms To Bring Welcome Rain And Snow To California"
• Net Zero Announcement: UK Sets Out Plans To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• "Dammit, Coal’s Back"
• "99.9% Of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused By Humans"
• "Climate Report: Africa’s Rare Glaciers Soon To Disappear"
• 'Brown Recovery' Ends Hope Pandemic Stimulus Would Drive Climate Spending
• "Diesel Trucks Are Causing Environmental Injustice Across US Cities"
• WaPo Crossed Line with Climate Stories Featuring Excerpt-Style Exxon "Ads"
• Canada's Peatlands Can Fight Natural Disasters And The Climate Crisis.
• Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter
• With Bachman’s warbler and others added to the ‘extinct’ list, we must support biodiversity agreements (commentary)
• Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project
• In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease
• U.S.’s Best Hope For Real Climate Policy Is Fizzling. What Happens Now?
• Document Leak Reveals Nations Lobbying To Change Key Climate Report
• "How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution"
• "Feds Hit Brakes — Again — On Mining Near Boundary Waters"
• "Reports: Health Problems Tied To Global Warming On The Rise"
• People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action Plan as Too Little, Too Late
• Wildfire Smoke Harms More People In The Eastern U.S. Than West: Study
• "In Harm’s Way: Our Actions Put People And Wildlife At Risk Of Disease"
• "See How the Dixie Fire Created Its Own Weather"
• "Salmon Need Trees"
• Paraguay failed to stop soy farms from poisoning Indigenous land, UN says
• Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa
• Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island
• California OKs new protections for leatherback sea turtles