Conservation News ~ 30 October 2020

• Gray Wolves to be removed from Endangered Species List
  
• Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests
• It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
• The next generation of power plants will be virtual
• Scientists discover a 'weird' molecule in Titan’s atmosphere that could be a precursor to complex compounds that form or feed possible life on the Saturn moon
• A new reef discovered in the Great Barrier Reef and it’s taller than the Empire State Building
• 240 Million year old marine predator species with fang like teeth uncovered in China
• Lawsuit launched to force Feds to update recovery plan for endangered California fish
• Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore
• South African activist killed as contentious coal mine seeks to expand
• Antarctic Ice Sheet is primed to pass irreversible climate thresholds
• American Forests CEO Jad Daley: We are one nation under trees
• EPA oks soybean, cotton farmers use of dicamba weedkiller
• White House buries dozens of clean energy studies
• South Korea’s targets carbon neutrality by 2050
• Researchers find a new species of gall wasp – a possible parasite of a parasite
• Two arrested in Chetumal with drugs and endangered species specimens
• Lawsuit launched to stop damaging hunting practices from killing endangered wildlife on refuges
• Sleeping giant - Arctic methane deposits starting to release
• Discovery adds new species to Rice lab’s ghoulish insect menagerie
• Researchers discover new species of gall wasp
• Land restoration can profoundly benefit people and the environment
• Latest estimate shows 11 percent decline in North Atlantic right whale population
• As their population plummets, right whales verge on extinction
• Godfather of Peruvian falcons uncovers peregrine’s epic journey from the Arctic
• Court allows referendum on mining in the Ecuadoran Andes to go forward
• Sea ice has yet to form off of Siberia, worrying scientists
• USFWS removing Endangered Mexican Wolves from the wild to protect cows
• Water on the moon could sustain a lunar base
• New species of Echinops found in Sahyadri mountains
• Endangered White Rhino born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park
• In Madagascar, endangered lemurs find a private refuge
• Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants
• Cherokee Nation gives eco0friendly boost to community centers
• 3 Sanparks staff members arrested on suspicion of rhino poaching
• Over 5,600 fossil fuel companies have taken at least $3bn in US COVID
• More than 7,000 dead seals found along Namibian beach
• Congress acknowledges 155-year-old betrayal of Warm Springs and Wasco Tribes
• Only 1% of British Columbia’s old growth forests remain
• Himachal: 9 new animal species discovered; one named after high school student
• EU votes to allow veggie meats to be called ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’
• Atlantic trends can predict Amazon drought 18 months away