Conservation News ~ 30 July 2021

• World’s Largest Solar Farm Costing $2B to Be Built in Indonesia
• Texas congressman introduces bill to reform Endangered Species Act
• Maui officials discover lone kiwikiu, critically endangered bird assumed dead
• Five New Species of Flowering Plants Discovered in Bolivia
• Lawsuit Launched to Protect National Conservation Area in Arizona From Destructive Cattle Grazing
• Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell
• Groups to Sue Idaho Over Wolf Kill – State Laws Violate Endangered Species Act
• Four endangered Piping Plover chicks hatched in Ohio for 1st time in 80 years
• Researchers Discover New Mysterious Species Of Shark In Indian Ocean
• As The World Burns, Worsening Climate Crisis Impossible To Ignore
• "Climate Change: Researchers Begin Discussions On Vital Report"
• As China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must
• Calif. To Cut Off Water To 1000s Of Farmers, As Drought Dries Up Rivers
• "US Fishermen Sound Alarm At Plans For Offshore Wind"
• Heritage Committee Won't Place Great Barrier Reef On ‘In Danger’ List
• "Groups Urge State To Protect Last Wild Atlantic Salmon in US"
• Bailout of N. Dakota Coal Plant Faces Backlash from Minnesota Customers
• "U.S. Judge Rules Lithium Americas May Excavate Nevada Mine Site"
• "Montana’s Famed Trout Under Threat as Drought Intensifies"
• New Solar Cell Innovation Provides 1,000 Times More Power
• Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds
• Record heat waves are a taste of what’s to come under a changing climate
• Indonesia’s Gorontalo road runs into forest, swerves environmental checks
• ‘Stampede’ of legislation threatens accelerated destruction of the Amazon
• Does nature have a legal right to exist? Colorado mountain town says yes
• Federal wildlife agency will review possible Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Alaska
• "Biden Admin To Curb Toxic Wastewater From Coal Plants With New Rule"
• "Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Over Ecuador Pollution Found Guilty Of Contempt"
• "‘Record-Shattering’ Heat Becoming Much More Likely, Says Climate Study"
• "Explainer: U.N. Summit Seeks To Shape A Food System Fit For The Future"
• "The Pearl River Is No Longer Home To Its Namesake Fish"
• "Warming Rivers In US West Killing Fish, Imperiling Industry"
• "Fairy Creek, The RCMP And A Win For Press Freedom"
• "Are Striped Bass Doomed? Some Conservationists Are Worried."
• "As Drought Cuts Hay Crop, Cattle Ranchers Face Culling Herds"
• "Elephant Island: An Oasis for Fin Whales in an Icy Sea"
• Camera trap cameo for Buru Island babirusa last seen 26 years ago
• Rare kiwikiu assumed dead found alive in Maui’s Nakula Natural Area Reserve
• Millions of seahorses caught as bycatch in Indian shores
• Baby turtles! Houston Zoo has first ever hatching of highly endangered turtle species
• Microbes in Yellowstone pools add new branch to the tree of life
• "Biden Mileage Rule To Exceed Obama Climate Goal"
• Review Of Federal Oil, Gas Leasing Program Being Finalized Internally
• 139 Dems Urge EPA To "Promptly" Let Calif. Set Its Own Auto Standards
• Florida Buys $300 Million In Land For The Environment — And Developers
• "Can Retrofitting Dams for Hydro Provide a Green Energy Boost?"
• 8 Republicans Join Dems To Confirm Head of DOJ Environmental Division
• "Western Wildfires Are Sending Carbon Offsets Up in Smoke"
• "Historic Floods Fuel Misery, Rage In Detroit"
• Canadian Miner Looms Large As Nauru Expedites Key Deep-Sea Mining Rules
• "‘An Abomination’: The Story Of The Massacre That Killed 216 Wolves"
• Hartree Partners to channel $2.8 billion toward new carbon credits
• Indonesia reimposes ban on destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters
• Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study
• Palm oil grower looks to make amends for past deforestation in Indonesia
• For species in the red, IUCN’s new Green Status signals conservation wins
• Trafficking for traditional medicine threatens the Philippine porcupine
• New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points
• Biden Bid To Turn America’s Auto Fleet Electric Harder Than It Seems
• "Climate Crisis Catches Power Companies Unprepared"
• Recycling Myth: Big Oil’s Solution For Plastic Waste Littered With Failure
• "Bayer To Pull Glyphosate from U.S. Lawn and Garden Markets"
• "Forgotten Oil And Gas Wells Linger, Leaking Toxic Chemicals"
• As Wildfires Worsen, More California Farms Deemed Too Risky To Insure
• Tuesday's Greenland Ice Melt Would Cover Florida In 2 Inches Of Water
• Trudeau Adds $5.2 Billion Bailout For Beleaguered Muskrat Falls Hydro Dam
• La. Researcher Says She Was Fired For Raising Alarm About Dolphin Deaths
• 25-foot Lummi Totem Pole Arrives In D.C. After A Journey Across U.S.
• "Democrats Call Infrastructure Bill a Down Payment on Climate"
• "Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas"
• "Is This the End of Summer as We’ve Known It?"
• Energy Transition Poses Opportunities, Challenges To Organized Labor
• New ‘Green Status Of Species’ Will Measure Recovery, Not Decline
• Multiple Failures Found After Massive Sewage Spill Into Santa Monica Bay
• Wash. State County Is First In US To Ban New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
• "Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works to Delay Them."
• Desalination Advances In Calif. Despite Opponents Pushing For Alternatives
• "U.S. Cities Offer Displaced Black Families The 'Right To Return'"
• Rubio, Paul, Cruz Reintroduce the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2021
• Water shortage, fire threat move to the top of Californians' environment concerns
• New species of frog named to hail Ghanaian community trying to save its habitat
• More tolerant primates have a greater need to communicate vocally, new study shows
• A new 'green status of species' will measure the recovery of threatened plants and animals
• Maritime teens credited with discovering new species of dragonfly from 300 million years ago
• U.S., Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals, deforestation in Brazil
• Spanish farmers fight forest fires with agroforestry (and many sheep)
• Ethnic communities in Myanmar opposing a coal plant see their fight get harder
• Southeast Asia losing tigers as deadline looms to double population by 2022
• Podcast: ‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort
• World’s Largest Solar Farm Costing $2B to Be Built in Indonesia
• Texas congressman introduces bill to reform Endangered Species Act
• Maui officials discover lone kiwikiu, critically endangered bird assumed dead
• Five New Species of Flowering Plants Discovered in Bolivia
• Lawsuit Launched to Protect National Conservation Area in Arizona From Destructive Cattle Grazing
• Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell
• Groups to Sue Idaho Over Wolf Kill – State Laws Violate Endangered Species Act
• Four endangered Piping Plover chicks hatched in Ohio for 1st time in 80 years
• Researchers Discover New Mysterious Species Of Shark In Indian Ocean
• As The World Burns, Worsening Climate Crisis Impossible To Ignore
• "Climate Change: Researchers Begin Discussions On Vital Report"
• As China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must
• Calif. To Cut Off Water To 1000s Of Farmers, As Drought Dries Up Rivers
• "US Fishermen Sound Alarm At Plans For Offshore Wind"
• Heritage Committee Won't Place Great Barrier Reef On ‘In Danger’ List
• "Groups Urge State To Protect Last Wild Atlantic Salmon in US"
• Bailout of N. Dakota Coal Plant Faces Backlash from Minnesota Customers
• "U.S. Judge Rules Lithium Americas May Excavate Nevada Mine Site"
• "Montana’s Famed Trout Under Threat as Drought Intensifies"
• New Solar Cell Innovation Provides 1,000 Times More Power
• Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds
• Record heat waves are a taste of what’s to come under a changing climate
• Indonesia’s Gorontalo road runs into forest, swerves environmental checks
• ‘Stampede’ of legislation threatens accelerated destruction of the Amazon
• Does nature have a legal right to exist? Colorado mountain town says yes
• Federal wildlife agency will review possible Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Alaska
• "Biden Admin To Curb Toxic Wastewater From Coal Plants With New Rule"
• "Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Over Ecuador Pollution Found Guilty Of Contempt"
• "‘Record-Shattering’ Heat Becoming Much More Likely, Says Climate Study"
• "Explainer: U.N. Summit Seeks To Shape A Food System Fit For The Future"
• "The Pearl River Is No Longer Home To Its Namesake Fish"
• "Warming Rivers In US West Killing Fish, Imperiling Industry"
• "Fairy Creek, The RCMP And A Win For Press Freedom"
• "Are Striped Bass Doomed? Some Conservationists Are Worried."
• "As Drought Cuts Hay Crop, Cattle Ranchers Face Culling Herds"
• "Elephant Island: An Oasis for Fin Whales in an Icy Sea"
• Camera trap cameo for Buru Island babirusa last seen 26 years ago
• Rare kiwikiu assumed dead found alive in Maui’s Nakula Natural Area Reserve
• Millions of seahorses caught as bycatch in Indian shores
• Baby turtles! Houston Zoo has first ever hatching of highly endangered turtle species
• Microbes in Yellowstone pools add new branch to the tree of life
• "Biden Mileage Rule To Exceed Obama Climate Goal"
• Review Of Federal Oil, Gas Leasing Program Being Finalized Internally
• 139 Dems Urge EPA To "Promptly" Let Calif. Set Its Own Auto Standards
• Florida Buys $300 Million In Land For The Environment — And Developers
• "Can Retrofitting Dams for Hydro Provide a Green Energy Boost?"
• 8 Republicans Join Dems To Confirm Head of DOJ Environmental Division
• "Western Wildfires Are Sending Carbon Offsets Up in Smoke"
• "Historic Floods Fuel Misery, Rage In Detroit"
• Canadian Miner Looms Large As Nauru Expedites Key Deep-Sea Mining Rules
• "‘An Abomination’: The Story Of The Massacre That Killed 216 Wolves"
• Hartree Partners to channel $2.8 billion toward new carbon credits
• Indonesia reimposes ban on destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters
• Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study
• Palm oil grower looks to make amends for past deforestation in Indonesia
• For species in the red, IUCN’s new Green Status signals conservation wins
• Trafficking for traditional medicine threatens the Philippine porcupine
• New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points
• Biden Bid To Turn America’s Auto Fleet Electric Harder Than It Seems
• "Climate Crisis Catches Power Companies Unprepared"
• Recycling Myth: Big Oil’s Solution For Plastic Waste Littered With Failure
• "Bayer To Pull Glyphosate from U.S. Lawn and Garden Markets"
• "Forgotten Oil And Gas Wells Linger, Leaking Toxic Chemicals"
• As Wildfires Worsen, More California Farms Deemed Too Risky To Insure
• Tuesday's Greenland Ice Melt Would Cover Florida In 2 Inches Of Water
• Trudeau Adds $5.2 Billion Bailout For Beleaguered Muskrat Falls Hydro Dam
• La. Researcher Says She Was Fired For Raising Alarm About Dolphin Deaths
• 25-foot Lummi Totem Pole Arrives In D.C. After A Journey Across U.S.
• "Democrats Call Infrastructure Bill a Down Payment on Climate"
• "Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas"
• "Is This the End of Summer as We’ve Known It?"
• Energy Transition Poses Opportunities, Challenges To Organized Labor
• New ‘Green Status Of Species’ Will Measure Recovery, Not Decline
• Multiple Failures Found After Massive Sewage Spill Into Santa Monica Bay
• Wash. State County Is First In US To Ban New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
• "Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works to Delay Them."
• Desalination Advances In Calif. Despite Opponents Pushing For Alternatives
• "U.S. Cities Offer Displaced Black Families The 'Right To Return'"
• Rubio, Paul, Cruz Reintroduce the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2021
• Water shortage, fire threat move to the top of Californians' environment concerns
• New species of frog named to hail Ghanaian community trying to save its habitat
• More tolerant primates have a greater need to communicate vocally, new study shows
• A new 'green status of species' will measure the recovery of threatened plants and animals
• Maritime teens credited with discovering new species of dragonfly from 300 million years ago
• U.S., Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals, deforestation in Brazil
• Spanish farmers fight forest fires with agroforestry (and many sheep)
• Ethnic communities in Myanmar opposing a coal plant see their fight get harder
• Southeast Asia losing tigers as deadline looms to double population by 2022
• Podcast: ‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort