Conservation News ~ 29 January 2021

• SD Zoo’s Gorilla troop is eating, drinking, interacting, and on their way to a full recovery from covid
• "Biden's First 100 Days: What's Coming On Energy"
• "Biden Signals 'New Direction' On Regulations"
• Kerry Commits US To Climate Crisis Fight But Warns World Is Way Off Pace
• As Biden Takes Office, A Whole New Era For Writing About Climate Change
• "Biden Halts Oil And Gas Leases, Permits on US Land And Water"
• "Sharon Block, Union Ally, Named to White House Regulatory Post"
• "Biden Readies Second Batch Of Climate Orders For Next Week: Memo"
• Southern Ocean Warming Faster Than Thought, Threatening Antarctic Ice
• "Tracking Biden’s Environmental Actions"
• "Why Are People Living Near Dutch Goat Farms Getting Sick?"
• Oregon’s Crater, Waldo lakes designated ‘Outstanding Resource Waters’
• Ice covers the Sahara Desert for just 4th time in 50 years
• Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
• Wisconsin Republicans Demand DNR Resume Wolf Hunt Immediately
• Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining
• Plantations, mines didn’t worsen flood, Indonesia says. The data begs to differ
• No safe space for Philippines’ Indigenous youth as military allowed on campus
• Signs, but no sightings: The phantom rhinos of Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan Selatan
• Podcast: With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?
• In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance
• Atomic bomb tests help scientists finally date sharks
• Another extension for humpback whale habitat rule
• "Ex-DOJ Official Called ‘Radioactive’ After Alleged Election Plot"
• "Biden EPA Asks DOJ To Hit Pause On Defense Of Trump-Era Rules"
• "Electric Vehicles Close To ‘Tipping Point’ Of Mass Adoption"
• "Biden to Convene World Leaders to Talk Climate on Earth Day"
• "DuPont, Chemours in $4 Billion ‘Forever Chemicals’ Cost Pact"
• "Tracking Biden’s Environmental Actions"
• "U.S. Rejoins Fight Against Climate Change At High Level Summit"
• "Buttigieg’s Climate Promises: What Could He Actually Do?"
• "Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like"
• "Planting Crops — And Carbon, Too"
• Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?
• Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns
• Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection
• "Schumer Calls For Biden To Declare Climate Emergency"
• Biden Sets in Motion Plan to Ban New Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land
• "Biden Vows To Replace U.S. Government Fleet With Electric Vehicles"
• "DOJ Watchdog Probes If Staff Tried to Alter Election Outcome"
• "Earth Is Now Losing 1.2 Trillion Tons Of Ice Each Year"
• "Climate Scientist Michael Mann: Deniers Are Shifting Tactics"
• "Jair Bolsonaro Could Face Charges In The Hague Over Amazon Rainforest"
• Eminent Domain Lets Pipeline Developers Take Land From Black Owners
• "U.S. To 'Make Good' On Climate Finance Pledges, Kerry Tells Leaders"
• Officials Hail 'Encouraging' Number Of N Atlantic Right Whale Births
• Endangered Siamese crocodile in rare sighting at Thai national park
• Investment in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge can drive their economic growth (commentary)
• Indonesia remembers ‘irreplaceable’ Gunawan Wiradi, gentle giant of the countryside
• Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo
• What does a great argus pheasant sound like? Candid Animal Cam listens to birds
• Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat
• "Biden To Place Environmental Justice At Center Of Sweeping Climate Plan"
• "Dakota Access Pipeline Loses Appeal, Fueling Shutdown Fight"
• Coal-State Manchin Takes on Key Chairmanship for Dems Climate Effort
• "'Enormously Big Deal': Fed Creates Climate Committee"
• "New U.S. Strategy Would Quickly Free Billions in Climate Funds"
• "Judge: Commercial Filmmakers Don't Need Permits In National Parks"
• "Who is Jeffrey Bossert Clark?"
• Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Hit
• Coal Communities Want Biden to Fund an Economic Transition to Clean Power
• "Monitoring the Weather at the Edge of the World"
• The Plastic Waste Free Islands project 2020 update: key progress made over the last year
• Resolutions promoted by IUCN members in the Mediterranean region
• IUCN World Conservation Congress to be held from 3 to 11 September 2021 in Marseille
• Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs
• Energy spent avoiding humans linked to smaller home ranges for male pumas
• Rare parrot is breeding in Tasmania in record numbers
• Biden To 'Pause' Oil And Gas Leasing On Public Lands And Waters
• Wind-Blown Dust Is Causing Greenland’s Ice to Melt Faster
• Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo
• Kruger rhino populations plummet – latest official stats
• Kenya, Tanzania plan to conduct wildlife census
• Biden's "30 by 30" order could close-off 30 percent of US ocean to fishing
• Conservation Fund’s Green Bonds Pay Off: Eight Forests And 220,000 Acres
• Earth Has Lost More Than 28 Trillion Tons of Ice Since 1994
• White House Website Recognizes Climate Change Is Real Again
• Brazil to end military-led program against Amazon logging deforestation
• World's Smallest Chameleon Discovered And It’s "Surprisingly" Well-Endowed
• Baby crocodiles from endangered species born at zoo in Peru
• Biden signs 'existential' executive orders on climate and environment
• New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
• A new species of baleen whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico
• "Biden, Emphasizing Job Creation, Signs Sweeping Climate Actions"
• "Public Lands: Biden Debuts Bold Conservation Goal, Job Corps"
• "Analysis: How Biden's Freeze On Drilling Leases Affects CO2"
• "Biden Says He Will Ask Congress To Eliminate Subsidies For Fossil Fuels"
• "Biden Bolsters DOJ Focus on Environmental Justice, Climate"
• "President Biden’s 30% Conservation Commitment Is Good News for People, Too"
• Kerry Promises US Climate Change Diplomacy Won’t Weaken China Policy
• "How Biden’s Climate Ambitions Could Shift America’s Global Footprint"
• Atmospheric River Stalls, Triggers Mudslides And Is Set To Hit L.A.
• "Empty Seas: Oceanic Shark Populations Dropped 71% Since 1970"
• Oceanic shark and ray populations have collapsed by 70 percent over 50 years
• NEW ZEALAND GETS ITS FIRST VEGAN MILK FACTORY
• Nigeria seizes pangolin scales bound for Vietnam
• Lizard-like tuatara’s extra set of genes may help them tolerate cold
• Snowy owl is spotted in Central Park for first time in 130 years
• Kering and Conservation International launch the Regenerative Fund for Nature
• More than 1700 acres of SLO county ranchland now protected as wildlife preserve
• GM seeks to end making gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035
• Climate crisis – world is at its hottest for at least 12,000 years
• Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
• Biden orders sweeping preview of government science integrity policies
• Liquid nitrogen leak at Georgia poultry plant kills 6
• Oil industry stunned by Biden's fast action on fossil-fuel finance and drilling on public lands
• Senegal closes Bird Park after Mass  Pelican deaths
• In 2020, renewable energy beat fossil fuels across Europe
• Sweden suspends mink fur farming to stop spread of covid
• France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold climate change is now a national  Climate change is now a national security priority for the Pentagon
• Biden signs executive order protecting 30% of lands and Oceans by 2030
• Biden orders halt to oil and gas leasing on public lands
• House push-to-pass indigenous peoples bill after controversial 2020 legislation
• BC First Nation asks Court to order release of site C Dam safety
• Mange in Yellowstone wolves reveals insights into human scabies and conservation biology
• Three new species of extinct marsupials identified
• Ultra rare whale washed up off Florida is a new species
• Endangered plant species found in Honolulu FedEx package
• 6% of Earth's protected land is used to grow crops
• Nigeria Customs intercepts huge haul of Pangolin scales and Ivory
• 3 rhinos killed in two separate incidents in Zimbabwe
• Feds are investigating pritzker EPA for approving new scrap Shredder on Chicago's heavily polluted land
• Air Pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss
• Wolf immigration doesn't compensate for losses from hunting
• SoCal Edison to pay 2.2 billion dollar settlement in deadly 2018 Woolsey fire
• Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year
• Markets punish mining companies a hundred million dollars when environmental activists are killed
• Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source
• Rediscovered volcano mouse survive the second most powerful eruption of the 20th century
• North Carolina judge orders plan to release more captive-bred endangered Red Wolves into Wild
• European Banks quit Ecuador's Amazonian oil trade
• Humboldt Dunes designated national natural landmarks buy US Department of the interior
• UN calls for Urgent shift to Planet friendly development
• Solar panels capture more sunlight with capsaicin
• Monitors head to the Border after order to Halt the wall
• UN:  human progress at stake in post  covid choices
• Porpoise population rebounds after California  gillnet ban
• New York City Pension funds begin historic fossil fuel divestment
• Sumatran Rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy
• China faces questions over flagrant trade in chimps and elephants
• Tanzania cancel GMO trials again
• Missouri officials remove peregrine falcon from endangered species list
• Norway is now selling more electric cars than petrol vehicles
• Autopsy of Estonian Zoo's Asiatic lion uncovers  covid
• Rhino shot by poachers makes remarkable recovery in Zimbabwe
• UN treaty Banning nuclear weapons takes effect without the Us and other powers
• Norway's equinor clinches New York offshore wind contract
• We haven't seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
• Shortfin mako shark, warty sea cucumber protection sought in Mexico
• Brazil's indigenous leaders sue bolsonaro for crimes against humanity
• Punjabi University scientists find two new species of rare ant
• Big us oil drillers have Federal permits to mute effect of any Biden band
• West Coast has lost a quarter of its gray whale population since 2016
• EPA Chief just pardoned lab rabbits from animal testing
• Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon
• A nine year olds UK plastic waste petition has got over 80,000 signatures in a week
• Wisconsin natural resources board denies a motion to open State wolf hunting and trapping season by February 10th