Conservation News ~ 27 August 2021

• EPA Scrutinizes Neonicotinoids' Effects on Endangered Species
• House Democrats to Provide $100 Million for Critically Endangered Species in Reconciliation Bill
• New Mexico Gov joins Biden's 30x30 environment goal
• New species of snout beetles discovered in Mount Hamiguitan in Davao Oriental
• Study Shows American Dog Ticks in Western U.S. Are a Separate Species
• Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended
• Kenya port and ship-breaking projects threaten livelihoods and environment
• Keeling Curve Prize awarded to solar cooking and other climate change-reducing projects
• Illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon threatens Indigenous communities
• Franklin's bumble bee added to endangered species registry
• Biden Administration Denies Wolves Protection Under the Endangered Species Act
• Researcher helps collect key data to establish 9 new protected areas in Peru
• Six New Coffee Species Discovered In Madagascar
• Small mammals desperately need attention — now we know where to focus
• Brazil punching below its weight in getting forest products to the world
• Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’
• Deforestation surge continues amid deepening uncertainty in Myanmar
• A bouquet of discovery: Three new orchid species described from Ecuador
• Not just for humans — scientists turn to vaccines to save endangered species
• Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds
• Stranded dugong in Indonesia reportedly cut up for traditional medicine
• Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report
• They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort
• End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’
• New species of Cascade frog discovered from Arunachal Pradesh, named after Adi tribe
• "Russian Climate Plan Sees Rising Emissions Countered by Forests"
• "EPA Scrutinizes Neonicotinoids' Effects on Endangered Species"
• Many Measures Of Earth’s Health Are At Worst Levels On Record: NOAA
• "LED Streetlights Decimating Moth Numbers In England"
• "Trump Adviser Involved In Vineyard Wind Opposition"
• "Dems’ Reconciliation Plans: ANWR Drilling Halt, Lease Overhaul"
• "Oil Producers Push Democrats To Preserve Key Drilling Deduction"
• "Populations In High-Risk Climate Areas Grow: Redfin"
• "How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding"
• "Rights Of Nature' Cases Could Bolster Treaty Guarantees"
• "Russian Climate Plan Sees Rising Emissions Countered by Forests"
• "EPA Scrutinizes Neonicotinoids' Effects on Endangered Species"
• Many Measures Of Earth’s Health Are At Worst Levels On Record: NOAA
• "LED Streetlights Decimating Moth Numbers In England"
• "Trump Adviser Involved In Vineyard Wind Opposition"
• "Dems’ Reconciliation Plans: ANWR Drilling Halt, Lease Overhaul"
• "Oil Producers Push Democrats To Preserve Key Drilling Deduction"
• "Populations In High-Risk Climate Areas Grow: Redfin"
• "How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding"
• "Rights Of Nature' Cases Could Bolster Treaty Guarantees"
• Formaldehyde Causes Leukemia: EPA Assessment Suppressed Under Trump
• Texas Allocates Funds For Reducing Air Emissions to Widening Highways
• Carbon From UK’s 'Blue' Hydrogen Bid Still To Equal 1M Petrol Cars
• "Environmental Groups Sue Over Post-Wildfire Roadside Logging Plans"
• Not Just Humans — Scientists Turn To Vaccines To Save Endangered Species
• "Climate Crisis Made Deadly German Floods ‘Up To 9 Times More Likely’"
• "Heat Kills. This Underfunded Program Could Help."
• "Megadrought to Pit Fish Lives Against Human Needs in U.S. West"
• "Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines"
• "13 New Books About Pollution — and How to Fight It"
• "22 Dead, Many Missing After 17 Inches Of Rain In Tennessee"
• Democrats Spar This Week Over $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan
• "Biden Backs End To Wolf Protections But Hunting Worries Grow"
• In Fire Scorched California, Town Aims To Buy At-Risk Properties
• What Will Happen To Millions Of Retired Electric Car Batteries?
• "Denser Cities Could Be A Climate Boon – But Nimbyism Stands In The Way"
• "The Methane Hunters"
• Rain Fell On The Peak Of Greenland Ice Sheet For First Time In History"
• "Wilderness Closed: BWCA Cleared Of Visitors Amid Increased Fire Danger"
• "Trump's Border Wall Torn Apart by Arizona Monsoon Rains"
• "House Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan for Vast Expansion of Safety Net"
• "Why 3.6M Pounds Of Nuclear Waste Is Buried On A Popular California Beach"
• "EPA Rebuffed Warnings Its Auto Emissions Plan Was Too Weak"
• "DOE Urged to Weigh Environmental Inequity From U.S. Ethane Boom"
• "Agriculture Officials Really Want Those Spotted Lanternflies Gone"
• "Global Electric Power Demand Returns To Pre-Pandemic Levels"
• "Biden Aims To Remove All Lead Pipes. Will EPA Follow Suit?"
• "These Maps Tell the Story of Two Americas: One Parched, One Soaked"
• "Recommendations Target US Oil, Gas Leasing Across The West"
• "On the Move With Mongolia’s Nomadic Reindeer Herders"
• Offshore Floating Solar Technology Receives World’s First Class AiP
• South Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse, abandonment
• Mother tiger and her cubs found dead in Sumatra
• Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine
• Second family of wolverines discovered at Mount Rainier
• Researchers spot a ‘golden bear’ while studying endangered spectacled bears in Peru
• Wild belugas open their family to a little lost narwhal
• UN launches the first artificial intelligence tool for rapid natural capital accounting
• Federal judge throws out US approval of ConocoPhilips Alaska oil project
• The youngest orca at SeaWorld San Diego just died suddenly
• Mammals dream about the world they are entering even before birth
• Shasta, for the first time in recorded history, has no snowpack
• Huge oil spill in Trinidad and Tobago covered up by oil company
• Rain fell on the peak of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history
• Global billionaires bet on Greenland raw minerals
• Fully recyclable paper cups? They exist, but you won’t find them at Starbucks
• Mother tiger and her cubs found dead in Sumatran forest
• A ‘sleeping beauty’ awakens to join Sri Lanka’s list of endemic plants
• Study shows how sustainable livelihood programs for Indonesian fishers can succeed
• Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app
• As COP15 approaches, ’30 by 30’ becomes a conservation battleground
• Dam builder denies responsibility as logjam chokes river in Malaysian Borneo
• Loss of forests turns up the heat, literally, on giant anteaters
• It’s time to scrutinize who’s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld
• ‘Carving up my country’: Land clearing reignites fracking debate in Western Australia
• On board Ghana’s trawlers, claims of human rights abuses and illegal fishing
• To count Sumatran rhinos in the wild, look for their poop, study says
• Nature takes a beating after chemical explosion in South Africa civil unrest