Conservation News ~ 30 April 2021

• 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