Conservation News ~ 24 March 2022

• Endangered green turtles are bouncing back in the Seychelles
• Scientists Discover New Marine Microbe Species that Could Help Combat Climate Change
• Poor waste management turns dump sites into death traps for Sri Lanka’s elephants
• Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill
• World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech
• Probe finds palm oil firm illegally clearing forest in Sumatra wildlife haven
• ‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald
• Road project threatens to derail Nepal’s conservation gains, study says
• A New Shrub Species- ‘Castela Senticosa’ Discovered by Researchers
• Chile's new President Boric signs Escazu environmental treaty
• Two new species of see-through frog named in Ecuador
• "Biden Supreme Court Nominee Faces Big Climate Questions"
• 70 Degrees Warmer Than Normal In Antarctica: Scientists Are Flabbergasted
• "Rain Finally In Forecast For Texas Areas Scorched By Fires"
• "EPA Union Urges Agency To Scrap Trump-Era Plan To Relocate Houston Lab"
• "UN Chief: Don’t Let Russia Crisis Fuel Climate Destruction"
• "Germany Opens Door to Qatar Natural Gas in Pivot From Russia"
• "There’s a Messaging Battle Right Now Over America’s Energy Future"
• "EPA Helms White House Indoor Air Plan To Help Fight Covid-19"
• Report Looks At Water Quality 50 Years After The Clean Water Act Passed
• "Don Young Leaves Outsize Natural Resources Legacy"
• 2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture
• ‘Studying a ghost’: In Cape Town, urban caracals give researchers lots to ponder
• Rare Sand Dune-Dwelling Plant in Oregon, California Proposed for Endangered Species
• "‘Watershed Moment.’ SEC Proposed Landmark Climate Rules"
• "How War in the World’s Breadbasket “Changes Everything”"
• 4th Round of UN Talks Fail To Finalize A Treaty To Manage The High Seas
• "‘Evolving Intelligence’ Puts U.S. Energy Industry On High Alert"
• "A Chumash Tribe And Conservationists Fight Offshore Wind Turbines"
• "Top Democrats Probe USPS Fleet Contractor"
• Black, Low-Income Areas in Fla. Still Haven’t Recovered From Michael
• Calif. Plan Would Give $100M To Indigenous Leaders To Buy Ancestral Lands
• Dr. Oz Supports Fracking As Candidate, But Raised Concern As Celeb
• "Ice Skating at a Rink Is Fun. Gliding Through a Forest? Glorious."
• Northern long-eared bat, ravaged by a deadly fungus, proposed for endangered species listing
• New local millipede species discovered, named after conservationist
• "No Country Met WHO Air Quality Standards In 2021, Survey Shows"
• "EPA Panel Backs Tighter Soot Standards"
• DNR: More Groundwater Damaged By Line 3 Pipeline Aquifer Ruptures
• "Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radiation Monitoring System Not Working"
• Tornado Touches Down In New Orleans, Killing One And Damaging Houses
• Lethal Disease Has Nearly Wiped Out Northern Long-Eared Bats
• "Chair of U.N. Biodiversity Talks Expects Agreement On Key Target"
• "Multiyear Ice Thinner Than Thought As Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Winter Max"
• "EPA Warns Of Permitting Hurdle For Troubled Refinery"
• "Egypt Erects Sand Barriers As Rising Sea Swallows The Nile Delta"
• From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story
• Bird-counting app kindles interest in Nepal’s rich avian life
• Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds
• Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?
• Indigenous communities transform a Mexican desert landscape into forest
• Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?
• Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies
• In Brazil, a forest community fights to remain on its traditional land
• Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)
• Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution: Report
• Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake
• ‘Right moon for fishing’: Study finds gravitational impacts on plants, animals
• In Rio de Janeiro, a forest slowly returns to life, one species at a time
• Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)
• Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon
• Fourth round of U.N. talks fail to finalize a treaty to manage the high seas
• Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy
• Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) assumed full management of the Bison Range, formerly known as the National Bison Range
• Germany backs phasing out combustion engine cars by 2035
• In Indonesia’s Spice Islands, some farmers are going back to organic
• Feds Propose Endangered Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat
• "Biden And Europeans To Announce Major Plan To Redirect Gas To Europe"
• "UN Sets 5-Year Goal To Broaden Climate Early Warning Systems"
• Scott Pruitt Called Two Fossil Billionaires While Weighing Senate Run
• "U.S. Fuelmakers On Hook For Vehicle Emissions In New SEC Rule"
• "Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly"
• "EPA Eyes New Rule For Gas-Fired Power Plants"
• "Calif. Takes First Moves To Limit ‘Erin Brockovich’ Chemical"
• "Many BLM Grazing Permits Renewed Without NEPA Review, Group Says"
• "The Arctic Revolution That’s Changing Climate Science"
• "‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late"
• Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report
• Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders
• AI model shows how Amazon dams can be made less environmentally damaging
• Stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon discovered in reserve threatened by Mozambique insurgency
• Millennia of Indigenous history faces erasure as mining grips Brazil’s Tapajós
• Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)
• Italy builds first offshore wind farm in an effort to move away from Russian gas