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Conservation News ~ 30 April 2021

4/30/2021

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  • Washington moves sage grouse onto state endangered species list
  • Brazil cuts environment spending one day after US climate summit pledge
  • New species of frog in Champaign County
  • Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics
  • Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests
  • Fear not the bobcat (Commentary)
  • Novelizing wildlife crime investigations: Q&A with author Bryan Christy
  • COVID-19 compounds a poaching problem targeting the Amazon’s pirarucu
  • As climate summit unfolds, no Biden-Bolsonaro Amazon deal forthcoming
  • The Nation’s Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of Its Topsoil
  • Oregon counts more gray wolves in 2020, but concerns for their safety abound
  • Pacific Northwest’s ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people
  • California Governor bans new fracking permits starting in 2024
  • AOC’s plan for a 1.5 million-strong Civilian Climate Corps, explained
  • Washington’s Wolf Population Increased 22% in 2020
  • New-Growth Alaskan Forests May Store More Carbon After Wildfires
  • Giant Cloud Rat Species 'twice The Size Of Grey Squirrel' Discovered In Philippines
  • Eagles Set To Soar Off Vermont's Endangered Species List After Years Of Steady Recovery
  • ‘Profound ignorance’: Microbes, a missing piece in the biodiversity puzzle
  • We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz
  • Companies and officials flout forest-clearing moratorium in Papua, report finds
  • Large-scale deforesters emboldened under Brazil’s Bolsonaro, data indicate
  • Feds begin five-year review of endangered Southern Resident orcas
  • Washington moves sage grouse onto state endangered species list
  • Twitter lends name to new species of mite discovered in Japan
  • Fortnite video game CEO makes Va.'s largest land conservation gift
  • "Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, UN Says"
  • "Why the U.S. Might Miss Biden's Climate Goal"
  • "Paris Climate Agreement Overlooks Wood Pellet Loophole"
  • EPA Calls Old Creosote Works in Pensacola Threat to Human Health
  • "The Fight to Clean Up the EPA"
  • New Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change
  • "Supreme Court: Military's Mess Sparks Guam Superfund Battle"
  • "Infrastructure Money Could Aid Push To Plug Oil, Gas Wells"
  • "Saudi Arabia To Join New Forum On Climate Change - State News Agency"
  • Fact Check: No, Biden Is Not Trying To Force Americans To Eat Less Red Meat
  • "Former Ojibwe Chairman Tapped For Interior's Indian Affairs"
  • "Biden Exploring Border Adjustment Tax to Fight Climate Change"
  • EPA, Virgin Islands Launch Probe After 2nd St. Croix Refinery Incident
  • WH Warns That U.S. Lags Behind China On Developing Clean Technologies
  • Chemical Industry Lobbying And Cash Defeated Regulation In Trump Era
  • "Why Scientists Are Sounding The Alarm On Canada’s Melting Permafrost"
  • "Diminishing Ice Cover On Maine’s Lakes Could Impact Fish Populations"
  • Study Finds Lyme-Carrying Ticks Next To Beaches And Almost Everywhere
  • Fla. Passes Bill To Protect Sugar Farmers From Health Hazard Suits
  • "Climate Crisis Has Shifted The Earth’s Axis, Study Shows"
  • Mammoth molars yield the oldest DNA ever sequenced
  • Nuts about agroforestry in the U.S. Midwest: Can hazelnuts transform farming?
  • Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum
  • Reversing warming quickly could prevent worst climate change effects: Study
  • Hits and misses for a legal tool to protect the environment in Philippines
  • Marine microplastics are now invading the atmosphere, study finds
  • Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for Variable Cuckoo Bumblebee
  • Thousands of baby sea stars born at UW lab are sign of hope for endangered species
  • Bolsonaro abandons enhanced Amazon commitment same day he makes it
  • The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer Morris is an ‘impatient optimist’
  • Mining and logging threaten a wildlife wonderland on a Philippine mountain
  • Researchers take up the cause of the mysterious and maligned Chaco eagle
  • Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone
  • "Biden Administration Announces $8.25B In Loans To Boost Power Grid"
  • "Why Dead Trees Are ‘the Hottest Commodity on the Planet’"
  • Extreme Weather: Flood Insurance Debate Returns. Here's What To Expect
  • "Senate Confirms Janet McCabe As Deputy EPA Chief"
  • "Scientist: Extent of DDT Dumping In Pacific Is ‘Staggering’"
  • "Biden's Unlikely New Ally On Climate Change: Corporate America"
  • "Biden Administration Makes It Easier For Tribes To Reacquire Lands"
  • Drought-Hit Calif. To Halt Nestlé From Taking Millions Of Gallons Of Water
  • "Regan's Contentious Bid To Reset EPA Scientific Integrity"
  • "Cicadas Will Overrun D.C. This Spring After 17 Years Underground"
  • Single-Use Plastics Found at the Deepest Points of the Ocean
  • "Senate Reinstates Obama-Era Controls on Climate-Warming Methane"
  • 13 U.S. Refineries Exceeded Emissions Limits For Cancer-Causing Benzene
  • "Biden Races Courts For Chance To Torpedo Trump Water Rule"
  • Migration To Flee Rising Seas Could Affect 1.3 Mln Bangladeshis By 2050
  • Deadly Air Pollutant Disproportionately Harms Americans Of Color: Study
  • "Biden Nominates Three New Members to Chemical Safety Board"
  • 'White Gold' Rush: Calif. Lithium In Demand Amid Electric Vehicle Surge
  • "Satellites Show World’s Glaciers Melting Faster Than Ever"
  • Emails Show Oil Lobby Mobilized Dem Governors’ Opposition To Biden Order
  • "The Secret Footage of the N.R.A. Chief’s Botched Elephant Hunt"
  • New pumpkin toadlet species found in Brazil
  • “Like a tiny galaxy descended into the forest”—new species of firefly found
  • A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal
  • Malaysian firm bidding to clear Papua forest loses land bid, but deforestation persists
  • Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft
  • Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick
  • Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators
  • Scientists warn of looming water crisis with millions of wells at risk
  • At Vietnam’s southern tip, mangroves defend the land from the encroaching sea
  • Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone
  • Using microbes to remove microplastics from the environment
  • Environmental groups urge Mexican Senate to ban mining in protected area
  • Report finds 100 wolf packs may lose pups from February hunt
  • Many scientists now say global warming could stop relatively quickly after emissions go to zero
  • Scientists discover hybrid ermine species isolated in Haida Gwaii for 300,000 years
  • German court orders revisions to climate law, citing major burdens on youth
  • Court orders ban on Chlorpyrifos to protect children’s health
  • Nobel Prize Laureates and other experts issue urgent call for action on climate change
  • Countries might actually hit their climate targets
  • 13 US refinieries exceeded emissions limits for cancer-causing benzene in 2020
  • Charlotte moves ‘clean ahead’ with electric bus pilot
  • Biden’s new moonshot: an offshore wind industry to rival Europe’s
  • Senate votes to restore regulations on climate-warming methane emissions
  • Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever
  • Switzerland is the 17th country to join SC1.5NCE not Silence campaign
  • BC kills 237 wolves while matter before the courts
  • Minnesota Supreme Court struck down PolyMet’s permit to mine
  • US Joins support of two proposed marine protected areas in East Antarctica and the Weddell Sea
  • $40,000 reward offered over illegal shooting of mother Grizzly Bear in Idaho
  • Jaguar family’s release in Argentina is a step toward bringing back an important predator
  • Lawsuit challenges Trump administration approval of southeast Idaho phosphate mine
  • Scientists find way to remove polluting microplastics with bacteria
  • Researchers have hit on a widely available solution for decarbonizing fertilizer production
  • China and the EU commit to stepping up cooperation in lead up to the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Northern Mexican Garter Snake gains 20,326 acres of protected critical habitat in Arizona
  • Florida legislature recognized the Florida Wildlife Corridor
  • Council rejects 1 of 2 controversial developments in Alberta mountain town
  • Biden fills out science team with NOAA, DOE, and diplomacy picks
  • Drought-hit California orders Nestle to stop pumping millions of gallons of water
  • Shell, Exxon look to profit from capturing customers’ carbon emissions
  • Mining and logging threaten a wildlife wonderland on a Philippine mountain
  • Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary
  • New study reveals down east wild blueberries warming faster than the state as a whole
  • Indigenous nation in US has right to lands in Canada
  • Salmon span un upper Colombia River first time in over 80 years
  • Appeal filed to sustain Colorado River flows and stop Gross Dam expansion
  • Whooping Cranes are nesting in Texas for the first time in over a century
  • Jury acquits Extinction Rebellion protestors despite ‘no defence in law’
  • 950sg km of essential rainforest is added to Maya Forest corridor in Belize
  • Dream team of conservationists plan to protect 7 million square miles of ocean
  • Report alleges Australia engaged in illegal shark fin trade
  • Huge clearcutting, roadbuilding plan next to Yellowstone National Park opposed
  • Montana legislator introduces bill to legally target environmentalists
  • Zimbabwe says hundreds of endangered elephants can be shot to raise money
  • Environmental scientists – up to 20% of global groundwater wells at risk of going dry
  • Student invents solar windows that turn food waste in renewable energy
  • Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests
  • Report critizes offshore oil and gas environmental agency
  • California to ban fracking and phase out fossil fuels in California
  • Honda aims to go all-electric by 2040
  • Carbon emissions to soar in 2021 by second highest rate in history
  • Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough
  • West Virginia unions pressure Manchin to back Biden on Infrastructure plan
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