Conservation News ~ 3 June 2022

• Egg-eating humans helped drive Australia’s ‘thunder bird’ to extinction
• ‘Mind-Blowing’ Lost City With a Cosmic Link Discovered in the Amazon
• EU’s New Energy Plans Include Mandatory Solar Panels On New Buildings
• Draft-Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people
• Indigenous community mounts legal challenge to Thai coal mine development
• Can we save the spiky yellow woodlouse, one of the most endangered isopods? (commentary)
• Riders of the lost waves: Surfing, and saving, Brazil’s pororocas
• "Memorial Day Weekend Could Kick Off Long, Hot Summer For Gas Prices"
• "Ford Beats Tesla to the Punch With First Electric F-150 Delivery"
• Odd Bedfellows: Farmers And Greens Square Off Against Biden And GOP
• "Biden’s Pipeline Rules Target Key Link of Carbon Capture Buildout"
• Some States Are Trying A New Approach To Recycling Plastic
• "Tribal Request To Halt Arizona Copper Mine Work Is Denied"
• "Judge Orders US To Decide If Wolverines Need Protection"
• "Hurricane Agatha Poses Dangerous Flood Threat To Mexico"
• "A Waterway Project in Brazil Imperils a Vast Tropical Wetland"
• "Navajo Sign Water Rights Settlement With Utah, Feds"
• Peru: Researchers discover two new species of lizard
• New species of Arunachal Macaque named after snow-clad Sela pass
• Court Restores Wolverine Protections While Agency Reconsiders Endangered Species Decision
• Southern African countries agree to push for lift on international ivory trade
• Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei
• ‘Water grab’: Big farm deals leave small farmers out to dry, study shows
• ‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya
• Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss
• A helping hand for red-footed tortoises making a comeback in Argentina
• As large areas of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest regenerate, the gains don’t last
• Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says
• Bangladesh ban on resource hunting in Sundarbans leaves communities facing hardship
• New fynbos lily discovered at southern tip of Africa
• "Brent Crude Breaks $120 A Barrel As Gas Prices Soar"
• "How an Organized Republican Effort Punishes Companies for Climate Action"
• "EU Leaders Agree To Ban 90% Of Russian Oil By The End Of 2022"
• Tiny Pacific Island Nation Declares Plan To Protect 100% Of Its Ocean
• "Mini Nuclear Reactors Have an Outsized Waste Problem"
• Wyoming Utilities Balk at Carbon Capture Pricetag
• "Watchdogs Tackle the Murky World of Greenwash"
• "EU Missed Climate Spending Target Despite Claiming It Was Met -Auditors"
• "Interior Approves Big Power Line For Renewables In U.S. West"
• "Advocates Cast Doubt On Qatar's Carbon Neutral World Cup Efforts"
• Europe`s largest green hydrogen plant operational
• A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries
• Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers
• Chinese companies linked to illegal logging and mining in northern DRC
• A hidden crisis in Indonesia’s palm oil sector: 6 takeaways from our investigation
• Drastic declines in Neotropical birds in a protected Panamanian forest
• Government inaction sees 98% of deforestation alerts go unpunished in Brazil
• For 20 years, Comoros had only 1 national park. It’s now creating 5 more
• Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua
• Amazon frog highlights appropriation of Indigenous knowledge for commercial gain
• Yellowstone’s wolves defied extinction, but face new threats beyond park’s borders
• Giraffes One Step Closer to U.S. Endangered Species Protections
• Southern California Fish Move Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection
• Peru: Researchers discover two new species of lizard
• "Biden Wants To Rebuild The EPA. He Doesn’t Have The Money To Do It."
• "Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Actually Make Climate Change Worse"
• "Did Joe Manchin Block Climate Action To Benefit His Financial Interests?"
• "Experts: Everything Points To Another Busy Hurricane Season"
• "EPA Staff: No Need To Tighten Soot Limits"
• "Trump EPA Head Pushed Agents To Speed, Run Sirens"
• "The Paradox of Salmon Hatcheries"
• Year of the Tiger: Illegal Trade Thrives Amid Efforts To Save Wild Tigers
• Pentagon Reports High Levels Of PFAS In Drinking Water Near Bases
• Was Megalodon Shark Extinction Linked To Great White Competition?
• World's biggest plant discovered off Australian coast
• Yellowstone FedEx’d Three Bison To Alaska For $50,000
• "Deutsche Bank Subsidiary CEO Resigns After Greenwashing Raid"
• "Biden Administration to Cut Costs for Wind and Solar Energy Projects"
• "Here’s How The Government Wants To Disaster-Proof Your Home"
• "Too Many Pinks in the Pacific"
• "States Are Tackling Climate, Using Federal Cash as Congress Lags"
• "UN Chief Worries Ukraine War Overshadowing Climate Fight"
• "Pressure Growing To Remove PFAS From Fast Food Wrappers"
• "Indian Heatwaves Threaten Maternal And Baby Health"
• "Coalition Scrapped Recovery Plans For 176 Threatened Species And Habitats"
• "US Agrees To Update Critical Habitat For Florida Manatees"
• Bees are 'fish' under Calif. Endangered Species Act
• India's relic forests reveal a new species of leopard gecko
• Opaque infrastructure project ‘a death sentence’ for Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary
• Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild
• How Brazil is working to save the rare lion tamarins of the Atlantic Forest
• Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch
• In Jordan, the Middle East’s first Miyawaki-style ‘baby’ forests take root
• Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile
• Community participation trumps penalties in protecting seascapes, study suggests
• Suspension of Chinese miner for pollution in DRC points to wider problem
• How will climate change impact cold-water corals? Mostly through food loss, study says
• Australia lists koala as an endangered species across most of its range
• Turkish scientists discover new species of red algae
• Gecko found in Andhra, Odisha turns out to be a new species
• "Undoing Trump, EPA To Empower States And Tribes To Oppose Pipelines"
• "A Summer Of Blackouts? Wheezing Power Grid Leaves States At Risk."
• "Why Won’t the EPA Fine New Mexico’s Greenhouse Gas Leakers?"
• "Biden Finds Limited Options For Lowering Gasoline Prices"
• "SEC Climate Rule Sparks Backlash From Business Groups"
• "EPA Proposes Updating Gasoline Regs, Slashing Emissions"
• "FDA Agrees To Reassess BPA Risks"
• "Judge Greenlights More NEPA Reviews On Western Oil Leases"
• "Zebra Mussel Invasion Threatens Irrigated Agriculture in the Northwest"
• "Bear Hibernation: More Than A Winter’s Nap"
• Nearly half of planet’s land in need of ‘conservation attention’ to halt biodiversity crisis
• Australian scientists discover ‘biggest plant on Earth’ off Australian coast
• All the required $97 million now in place to buy and conserve Newport’s Banning Ranch
• Fracking plan stopped on 35k acres in Colorado
• IKEA announces solar panels to be sold in California stores, reduce company’s climate footprint
• BP to review North Sea investments following windfall tax announcement
• USDA whistleblower reveals fraudulent wolf kills
• EU unveils plans to boost African LNG and hydrogen links
• Extinction Rebellion inspires Shell safety consultant to jump ship
• First Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle nest seen in a decade at Galveston Island State Park