Conservation News ~ 29 October 2021

• "U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System"
• "Billions In Environmental Justice Funds Hang In The Balance"
• "La Niña Weather Pattern Likely to Prolong Western Drought, NOAA Says"
• "Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security"
• "Greenpeace Chief Warns Of ‘Greenwashing’ at UN Climate Talks"
• "California Seeks Strict Limits On New Oil Drilling Near Communities"
• "Federal Firefighters Deserve Better Pay And Benefits, Lawmakers Say"
• "Planned Fossil Fuel Output ‘Vastly Exceeds’ Climate Limits, Says UN"
• "Plastics Poised To Overtake Coal As Climate Driver" - Report
• "Why No Tusks? Poaching Tips Scales Of Elephant Evolution"
• Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows
• Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says
• Can we stop calling it ‘forest bathing’ now? Please, just take a hike. (commentary)
• Mangrove conservation takes root with local communities on Kenya’s coast
• ‘Unequal exchange’ for Brazil community in shadow of Anglo American mine
• COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do
• Opposition to South Africa coal mine persists a year after murder of activist
• Report: Luxury carmakers still sourcing deforestation-linked leather from Paraguay
• "Biden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action"
• "UN Warns World 'Way Off Track' As Greenhouse Gases Grow"
• "Judge Issues Injunction Blocking Wisconsin Fall Wolf Hunt"
• Big Ag Pays Farmers For Control Of Their Soil-Bound Carbon
• "Drought-Stricken California Doused By Powerful Storm"
• "Judge Nixes Trump-Era Limits On Regulation Of Water-Polluting Projects"
• Total Accused of Campaign to Play Down Climate Risk From Fossil Fuels"
• "White House Taps Martha Williams To Head FWS"
• "Navajo Nation Pushes For Radioactive Waste Remnants To Be Removed"
• "Fishery Closures and the Ghosts of Past Mistakes"
• Hong Kong Baptist University's discovery of new coral and nudibranch species
• An endangered species of African giant owl is captured for the first time in 150 years
• New flower species found in Shei-pa National Park
• Critically endangered Sunda pangolin caught on camera trap
• California Protects Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles As Endangered Species
• Giant pandas no longer endangered, China says
• Hertz will buy 100,000 Teslas, marking a big bet on electric vehicles in rental cars
• State Judge Issues "Dramatic Decision" in Striking Down Wisconsin Wolf Hunt
• Bolsonaro evades genocide blame amid Indigenous deaths by invaders, COVID-19
• $200 million in gold extracted in Amazon mine through illegal licenses
• Study chronicles dying of a lake in PNG with advent of oil & gas activities
• Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra
• On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes
• "World Set To Miss Goal Of $100B Climate Aid Pledged To Poor"
• "Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit New Record Despite Lockdowns, UN Reports"
• "Manchin Pushes For More Climate Cuts From The Budget Bill"
• Natural Gas Leaks In Boston Vastly Underreported — Could Be Inside Homes
• "Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater"
• "Attorneys Eye Glasgow Talks for Progress on Many Climate Issues"
• GenX: "EPA Deems ‘Forever Chemical’ Haunting N.C. Toxic To Humans"
• Hawaii Has A One-Year Deadline To Ditch Coal. Can It Keep Lights On?
• "A Climate-Conscious Fox Weather Could Leave Audiences Confused"
• Conservation Dogs May Help in Search for Endangered Franklin’s Bumblebee
• Trigonopterus corona, the new species of tiny beetle named after the coronavirus
• On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, museum scientists have discovered 28 new species of beetles
• Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ are people too, US court rules
• Polar bear hunting a reindeer caught on tape for first time
• Court strikes down Trump EPA water permitting rule
• NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people
• Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine
• Indigenous Bolivians take the defense of their land into their own hands
• Poisoned city: The story of Brazil’s forgotten environmental disaster
• World Faces Disastrous 2.7C Heating On Current Climate Plans, UN Warns
• "White House Sets Climate Spending At Up To $555 Billion"
• Biden FWS Moves To Undo Two Trump-Era Endangered Species Act Rollbacks
• "Amplify Energy Cashed Out Cleanup Fund While Racking Up Violations"
• "Gulf Arab States, Squeezed By Climate Change, Still Tout Oil"
• "Majority in US Concerned About Climate: AP-NORC/EPIC Poll"
• Australia Pledges ‘Net Zero’ by 2050. Plan Makes That Hard to Believe
• Big Oil Hearing To Kick Off Probe Into Climate Disinformation: Lawmaker
• "White House To Release Climate Strategy Ahead Of Glasgow"
• "Italy Hosts A Climate-Focused G20 As Geopolitics Shift"
• Indigenous leaders to push for land tenure rights as climate solution at COP26
• Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title
• Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution
• Deprived of their forests, Uganda’s Batwa adapt their sustainable practices
• Biden administration plans roll backs of Trump-era Endangered Species Act rules
• Discovery of a new species of fish thanks to sounds
• Marine Biologists Identify New Species of Beaked Whale
• Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Hearing
• Putin Pledges Carbon Neutrality By 2060 -- Claims Forests Will Do Job
• ‘Not a Solution Itself’: India Questions Net Zero Targets Ahead of Cop26
• "Release of EPA Methane Rules Expected This Week"
• "EPA Taps 10 Environmental Justice Panel Members to Advise Agency"
• Trudeau Picks Ex-Greenpeace Activist As Climate Chief, Angering Oil Patch
• Indigenous Leaders Push Land Tenure Rights As Climate Solution At COP26
• Human Rights Group To Investigate Uranium Contamination On Navajo Nation
• Wildfires, Cutting, Heating Turn 10 Unesco Forests Into Carbon Sources
• "Are We on the Verge of Chatting With Whales?"
• Indonesian farmers resisting an iron mine run up against a sultan
• Indigenous guides warn of repercussions if we don’t fix our relationship with nature
• Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders
• Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say
• A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet
• What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis
• Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime
• In Zimbabwe, an irrigation project threatens a tribe’s land and trees
• Podcast: Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition
• Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers
• Endangered birds experience 'virgin birth,' a first for the species
• "Climate Change Became the Largest Part of Biden Spending Bill"
• "Dems, Oil Execs Clash At Hearing: ‘They Are Obviously Lying’"
• "China’s New Climate Pledge Changes Little, in Bad Omen for Global Talks"
• Brazil's Greenhouse Emissions Rose 9.5% In 2020 With Amazon Deforestation
• "Forced Relocation Left Native Americans More Exposed to Climate Threats"
• Enviros Petition EPA To Rescind Factory Farms’ “Free Pass To Pollute”
• "EPA Unveils Strategy For Reducing Lead Exposure"
• "What a $2B Texas Project Says About U.S. Quest For CO2-Free Grid"
• "What Is COP26 and Why Is It Important?"
• ‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest