Conservation News ~27 January 2023

• "Davos 2023: Big Oil In Sights Of Climate Activist Protests"
• "African Activists Cast Doubt Over Climate Talks’ Credibility"
• "Feds Offer $700M To Lithium Project At Heart of ESA Dispute"
• "Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off"
• ‘Death By 1,000 Clearcuts’: Canada’s Deep-Snow Caribou Are Vanishing
• Major Prairie Dog Die-Off Had Consequences For Other Animals, Wildland
• "Climate Gentrification Is Coming to Hurricane-Wrecked Florida"
• "Road Salts Wash Into Mississippi River, Damaging Ecosystems and Pipes"
• "Monitors Show Months-Old Alabama Landfill Fire Polluting Air"
• "Newfoundlanders Identify With The Ocean. Now Some Are Moving Inland."       
• High levels of 'forever chemical' found in endangered orcas in Canada
• Bureau of Land Management Sued Over Handling of Ormat's Geothermal Exploration Project
• New species of lizard discovered in Peru national park
• A new species of gecko in New Zealand
• Endangered species of turtles washing up on Irish shores
• Critically Endangered Yangtze finless porpoise shows signs of recovery
• "China’s Population Falls, Heralding a Demographic Crisis"
• "How Dark Money Groups Led Ohio To Redefine Gas As ‘Green Energy’"
• "3.3 Million People Displaced By Natural Disasters In US Last Year"
• ‘Extinction Crisis’ Of Sharks And Rays Devastates Other Species: Study
• Banks Still Investing Big In Fossil Fuels Despite Net Zero Pledges: Study
• "Biden’s Green Energy Bank Races to Leverage $394 Billion to Scale Cleantech"
• "Federal Government Advances Big Water Projects"
• Arizona’s New Governor Takes on Water Conservation and Groundwater Report
• "Moving Species Emerges As Last Resort As Climate Warms"
• "Greta Thunberg Carried Away By Police At German Mine Protest"
• Odd parasitic plant with fleshy flowers identified as new species of hydnora
• "Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged California Coast Thursday"
• "New Ice Core Analysis Shows Sharp Greenland Warming Spike"
• "Brazilian Meat Giant Under Fire For Allegedly Misleading Investors"
• Over 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets By Top Provider Worthless: Study
• Granholm Says GOP Bill Would Weaken SPR, Result In Higher Gas Prices
• ‘Advanced’ Plastic Recycling Is Costly and Polluting: Study
• "‘It’s Time To Start Suing’: States Tee Up Next WOTUS War"
• As California’s Storms End, Reckoning With Flood Insurance About To Begin
• "Climate Misinformation ‘Rocket Boosters’ On Musk’s Twitter"
• Greta at Davos: Fossil Fuel Giants 'Throw People Under The Bus' For Gain
• New Species of Deep-Sea Fish Discovered off Costa Rica
• St Petersburg University zoologists discover four new species of micro-invertebrates
• Meet Nautilus, a deep-sea squat lobster species recently discovered
• "Thunberg Says Davos Elite 'Fuelling Destruction Of Planet'"
• "Trump’s Interior Secretary Didn’t Violate Ethics Rules, Watchdog Finds"
• "These Farmers Dominate The Colorado River. Cross Them At Your Peril"
• Shell To Spend $450M On Possibly Worthless Carbon Offsets
• Enviro Groups, Justice Company Reach Settlement Over Cleanup Of Va. Mines
• "Feds Send $930 Million To Curb ‘Crisis’ Of US West Wildfires"
• Renewables Soon To Be One-Fourth of US Electricity Generation. Really Soon
• "Environmental Groups Sue U.S. To Stop Deepwater Oil-Export Facility"
• "Racist Beauty Standards Leave POC More Exposed To Harmful Chemicals: Study
• "Twinkle, Twinkle Fading Stars: Hiding In Our Brighter Skies"
• "In Soaked California, Few Homeowners Have Flood Insurance"
• "Georgia Regulators Release Plans For Mine Near Okefenokee"
• "1st Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Certified For Use In US"
• "EPA Strategy For Alabama Landfill Fire: Smother It In Dirt"
• "EPA to Regulate PFAS Effluent From Landfills, Launch Studies"
• "Salt Marsh Microbes Threaten to Reshape the Atmosphere"
• "Native American Tribe In Va. Reclaims Big Parcel Of Its Homeland"
• "Rough Road For Farm Bill As Divided Congress Takes Hold"
• "What to Know About PFAS in Period Underwear"
• "Yeah, Actually, Your Plastic Coffee Pod May Not Be Great For The Climate"
• NASA study reveals amount of Sierra Nevada groundwater feeding Central Valley
• "Depleted Under Trump, a ‘Traumatized’ E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission"
• "Big Tech Helps Big Oil Spread Subtle Climate Denialism"
• Brazil Police Say Gang Leader Likely Ordered Killing of Phillips, Pereira
• "How Biden Can Meet His 100% Clean Electricity Goal"
• "Here’s What We Know About Kerry’s Offset Gambit"
• What If The Largest Owner Of Oil And Gas Wells In The US Goes Bankrupt?
• Some Landfills Will Begin Treating PFAS On-Site As Regulations Tighten
• "How The White House Found EJ Areas Without Using Race"
• "Growing Dust from Desert Wind Storms Has Curbed Warming, Study Finds"
• "Fear The Deer: Crash Data Illuminates America’s Deadliest Animal"
• IUCN President, Razan Al Mubarak, has been appointed UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the COP28 Presidency
• San Clemente Island Bell's Sparrow Flies Off Endangered Species List
• Endangered Sierra Nevada red fox discovered in national park
• Five species on San Clemente Island fully recovered, no longer considered endangered - CBS 8
• "The FDA Proposes New Targets To Limit Lead In Baby Food"
• ‘No Miracles Needed’: Mark Jacobson On How Renewables Can Power The World
• "The Sierra Club Tries to Move Past John Muir, George Floyd and #MeToo"
• "NIH Biosecurity Advisers Urge Tighter Oversight Of Pathogen Research"
• "Ukraine War Moves ‘Doomsday Clock’ To 90 Seconds To Midnight"
• "FAO: Rising Prices, Food Insecurity Add To Ranks Of Hungry"
• Ancient Seeds From Fertile Crescent Could Help Save Us From Climate Change
• "PFAS Foam Replacement Challenges Nation’s Fire Departments"
• "4th Circuit Asked to Nix Permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline"
• "An Ant’s Sense Of Smell Is So Strong, It Can Sniff Out Cancer"
• "Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest"
• Enviros Seek Tougher Oil And Gas Rules To Protect Rare Whale In Gulf
• Bill To Withdraw Va. From Carbon-Trading Program Dies In State Committee
• Pa. Drillers Abandoned Thousands Of Gas Wells In 5 Years, Ignored State Law
• US Refuses Calls For Immediate Protection Of North Atlantic Right Whales
• Regulators Nix Proposal To Delay Closure Of Last California Nuclear Plant
• "Silencing Science: How Indonesia Is Censoring Wildlife Research"
• "Agency Delays Protections For Imperiled Bat, Prairie Chicken"
• "Sea Otter Recovery Is Sending Ripples through the Ecosystem"
• "Dolphins Make A Splash In The Bronx River For First Time In 5 Years"
• New Species of Lizard Discovered in Peru
• New species of microalgae discovered
• "Biden Administration Sets a Mining Ban in Boundary Waters Wilderness"
• "Town Where Child Cancer Rose Blasts Deal Over Polluted Site"
• "Lax Oversight Allows U.S. Refineries To Pollute Waterways - Report"
• "Puerto Rico Hands Control of its Power Plants to a Natural Gas Company"
• "U.S. Native Seed Shortage Hinders Land Restoration - Report"
• Colorado River Is Overused And Shrinking. Crisis Transforms The Southwest
• "Meet The Top House Recipients Of Oil And Gas Money"
• In Atlanta, a Deadly Forest Protest Sparks Debate Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’
• "Climate Groups Decry Selection Of Oil Chief To Oversee COP28"
• "New Museum In Mexico Spotlights Endangered Axolotl Salamander"
• The Royal Opera House has dumped BP as its sponsor
• US President announces plants to fully restore the Roadless Rule in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, protecting 9 million acres from construction and logging
• Kristine Tompkins wins 2023  Ken Burns American Heritage Prize
• Electric vehicles made up 10% of all new cars sold globally last year