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Conservation News ~ 23 April 2021

4/23/2021

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  • Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay
  • U.S. Seeks To Polish Tarnished Reputation With New Climate Pledges
  • EPA IG: Trump Official Delayed Releasing Info On Cancer Chemical In Ill.
  • "Judge Nixes Civil Rights Bid to Block Chicago Metal Shredder"
  • "Infrastructure Plan Lifts Tribes’ Hope of Turning on Water Taps"
  • Texas’s Zombie Oil Wells Are Creating An Environmental Disaster Zone
  • "Regulators Rebuke PG&E For Neglect In Reducing Wildfire Risk"
  • Old Apple Orchard To Make Clean Hydrogen Energy in Washington State
  • S. Korean Fishmongers, Opposition Voice Concerns Over Fukushima Plans
  • "Environmental Group Sues Over Protections For 20 Species"
  • "‘Tiger King’ Stars’ Legal Woes Could Transform Cub-Petting Industry"
  • Human impact on South America expanded by 60% since 1985
  • Large New Amphibious Centipede Species Discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan
  • Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoples
  • DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared
  • JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER CHALLENGED TO DRINK RADIOACTIVE WATER BEFORE DUMPING IT INTO THE OCEAN
  • Female giraffe receives treatment after poachers amputate hind leg
  • Extinction: Elephants driven to the brink by poaching
  • Apple creates fund for 'working forests' as part of carbon-removal efforts
  • STUDY: HUMANITY HAS RAVAGED ALL BUT 3 PERCENT OF THE LAND ON EARTH
  • Suspected poached killed by herd of elephants in Kruger National Park
  • ‘Single-use plastics’ to be phased out in Australia from 2025 include plastic utensils and straws
  • The White House wants to spend $100 million to monitor the air we breathe
  • Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture
  • Deciduous trees offset carbon loss from Alaskan boreal fires, new study finds
  • Illegal coal mine tunnels threaten a Sumatran village
  • Rats reappear on Lord Howe Island for the first time since 2019 eradication program
  • Despite Clashes, U.S. And China Vow To Work Together On Climate Change
  • "Biden Pressed On Emissions Goal As Climate Summit Nears"
  • On Infrastructure, Lofty Ideas Collide With Congressional Reality
  • "Transmission Road Map Could Help Unlock Renewables"
  • "Interior Order Revokes Trump Moves on Coal Leasing Moratorium"
  • "Science Could Aid Climate Cases. Big Oil Is Fighting It"
  • EPA Knows Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels Emit Harmful Chemicals
  • "US West Prepares For Possible 1st Water Shortage Declaration"
  • "Calls Grow For Undoing Environmental Damage Of Trump's Wall"
  • Set For Summer: 49 New National Scenic Byways And All-American Roads
  • Tarantulas Were Scuttling Around Earth Alongside Dinosaurs 120 Million Years Ago
  • Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts
  • Winners of $20M contest make concrete to trap carbon dioxide
  • Biggest Coal Mine Workers Union In the US Supports Switch to Renewables
  • Rare species of deer born at Keystone Safari
  • "Joe Biden To Reveal US Emissions Pledge In Key Climate Crisis Moment"
  • "Biden Axes Top Trump Climate Scientist"
  • Jackson, Miss., Won’t Release Email About 2020 Water System Problems
  • "Is California Suffering A Decades-Long Megadrought?"
  • Paint Stripper Methylene Chloride Caused More Deaths Than EPA Identified
  • Biden Admin Releases $8 Billion In Disaster Funding For Puerto Rico
  • GAO Raises Concerns About Government Inspections Of Offshore Pipelines
  • "Size Of Pipeline Spill Again Underestimated In N. Carolina"
  • Business Booming in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It.
  • "How Canada Is Trying To Protect Its Last Three Spotted Owls"
  • Pollution settlements cost Delaware poultry producer $205 million
  • Grizzlies use the same Yellowstone trails as people
  • Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing
  • With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics
  • Caring for those ‘just like us’: Q&A with vet and great ape advocate Rick Quinn
  • Did you know that a group of warthogs is called a sounder? Candid Animal Cam
  • The U.S. reptile most at risk from rising seas is one you likely haven’t heard of
  • Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema
  • Big cats: US senators seek ban on private ownership of lions and tigers
  • Federal Analysis Finds Insecticide Malathion Imperils Continued Existence of 78 Endangered Species
  • DiCaprio, Katy Perry urge Biden to refuse Brazil environment deal
  • A recently discovered insect has been named after coronavirus 
  • After 40 years, new fish species in named by students on Guam
  • "Biden Plans To Cut Emissions At Least In Half By 2030"
  • Report On Suncor Malfunctions Doesnt Quell Calls For Refinery’s Closure
  • "Legislation Aims To Kill 90% Of Wolves Roaming Idaho"
  • Biden Admin Kicks Off Plan To Shore Up Cybersecurity Of Electric Grid
  • Watchdog: Trump-Era Rollback Of Car Rules Undercut EPA Staffers' Advice
  • "How Politics Is Shaping Biden’s Infrastructure Proposal"
  • ‘Water Warriors’: US Women Banding Together To Fight For Water Justice
  • "U.S. To Join Global Effort To Decarbonize Shipping Industry - Kerry"
  • Controversial $2.5B Oil Terminal Moves Forward In Plaquemines Parish
  • Spillover: We Failed To Stop SARS-CoV-2. How Do We Find Next 'Big One'?
  • Melting ice in Arctic linked to bowhead whales holding off annual migration
  • New beef scorecard measures brands against their deforestation promises
  • Hunger, disorientation blamed for pilot whale mass stranding in Indonesia
  • Deadly new snake named after mythical Chinese goddess of healing
  • Environmental art initiative aims to help paint a better future for Southeast Asia
  • Dams drove an Asian dolphin extinct. They could do the same in the Amazon
  • Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann
  • Food systems drive a third of greenhouse gas emissions, study estimates
  • Legislation aims to kill 90% of wolves roaming Idaho
  • "A Guide To Biden's Climate Summit"
  • "Dems Push $25B For Electric School Buses, A Biden Priority"
  • "White House Moves To Assist Western U.S. Communities Hit By Drought"
  • "Lead Detected In 80% Of Allegheny County, Pa., Water Systems: Report"
  • Collins Joins Democrats In Bid To Undo Trump Methane Emissions Rollback
  • "10 Things We Learned About Earth Since The Last Earth Day"
  • "Four In 10 Americans Live In Counties With Unhealthy Air Pollution"
  • "Texas On Track To Add Record Solar Power Capacity By End Of 2022"
  • "‘Forever Chemicals’ Coat The Outer Layers Of Biodegradable Straws"
  • "Harriet Tubman’s Family Home Unearthed In Maryland Wildlife Refuge"
  • Judge gives feds 30 days to decide if wildflower is endangered
  • Biden Administration Moves to Unwind Trump Auto-Emissions Policy
  • Governors Urge Biden To Order 100% Zero-Emission Car Sales By 2035
  • President Biden Pledges To Cut US Carbon Emission By Up To 52 Percent By 2030
  • The U.S. electric power sector is ‘halfway’ to zero carbon emissions
  • ‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’
  • Thousands Of Pounds of Marine Debris Removed From Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary
  • Four in 10 Americans live in counties with unhealthy air pollution levels
  • Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed, report says
  • Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis
  • The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)
  • Jamaican Climate Change Youth Council seizes opportunity to continue advocacy amidst pandemic
  • No monkey business: For Zanzibar’s red colobus, speed bumps are lifesavers
  • Indonesia’s bid to control deforestation wildly off-target, experts say
  • Researchers rush to understand kelp forests as harvesting increases
  • Pipeline tells Black Memphis landowners: sell us the rights to your land or get sued
  • Recovering America’s Wildlife Act reintroduced to U.S. House
  • The Nation’s Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of Its Topsoil
  • Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed
  • Endangered orange-bellied parrots released into wild
  • Dolphins, turtles found dead in Kipini due to trawling activities
  • Bank climate pledges in doubt after US giants sit out global agreement
  • Florida agriculture officials ban citrus pesticide approved near end of previous administration
  • ‘Extinct’ highly venomous sea snake rediscovered in ocean’s twilight zone
  • America’s largest coal miners’ union back clean energy
  • Biden invites 40 world leaders to virtual summit on climate crisis
  • JPMorgan Chase expanding deforestation policies under shareholder pressure
  • Blue Nature Alliance aims to restore 7 million square miles of ocean in five years
  • Seagrass forests counteract ocean acidification
  • France drafts ecocide bill to punish acts of environmental damage
  • Recent jaguar sighting give experts hope for species recovery on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border
  • One person arrested in connection with TABLE Mountain Fire
  • As coal pollution declines, crops begin to flourish
  • NZ to launch world-first climate change rules
  • Lawsuit filed to protect rare Southern Nevada wildflower
  • Phoenix Zoo welcomed new species and 14 prairie dog pups
  • New species of ehu is named after scientist who spent decades studying the fish
  • $25 million worth of giant clam shells seized in the Philippines
  • Coffee waste can boost tropical forest recovery
  • In world first, New Zealand to make banks report climate impact
  • Deb Haaland scraps a slew of fossil-fuel friendly Trump orders
  • Shrinking sea meadows store more carbon than forests
  • Indian government makes another attempt to amend the Indian Forest Act of 1927
  • Western US may be entering its most severe drought in modern history
  • First GMO mosquitoes to be released in the Florida Keys
  • With first-ever Colorado River shortage almost certain, states stare down Mandatory cutbacks
  • New species of dumbo octopus identified using minimally invasive techniques
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