Conservation News ~ 4 December 2022

• "In a First, Rich Countries Agree to Pay for Climate Damages in Poor Nations"
• "'Landmark Vote' Gives Boost To Threatened Sharks"
• Black Communities In Louisiana Far More Exposed To Industrial Pollution
• Investigations Of Chemical Incidents Hampered By Board's Staff Shortages: IG
• Monterey Bay Desalination Plant OKd Despite Environmental Injustice Concerns
• "Multinationals Opening New Gas Sites, Despite Climate Change Warnings"
• "Leak At Pennsylvania Gas Storage Well Spewing Methane"
• "White House Announces $13 Billion In Grid Resilience Funds"
• Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over Coal Power
• "How Russia Is Weaponizing The Ukrainian Winter"
• "How Vulnerable Countries Finally Got A Fund For Climate Damage"
• "Coal Emissions On Pace For Record-Setting 2022"
• "Democratic Gains Embolden State Lawmakers Eyeing Climate Action"
• "In War-Torn States Hurt By Climate, Scant Hope For New Funds"
• "EPA, Watchdog Clash Over Water Cyberthreats"
• "U.S. Approves Aid to Extend Life of California Nuclear Plant"
• "Car Tire Chemicals Are Killing Salmon And Steelhead"
• "Analysis: First U.S. Coral Insurance Marks The Rise Of The Reef Brigades"
• "Growing Storms Push Shrinking La. Insurers Into Failure"
• "How The Forest Dies"
• "Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?"
• "How China, The World’s Top Polluter, Avoids Paying For Climate Damage"
• "Uncertainties About Climate Compensation Fund Trigger Skepticism"
• "UN Climate Boss Settles For No Cuts On Emissions"
• Longer Australian Bushfire Seasons, More Wild Weather Seen As Climate Warms
• "Vietnam Boosts Coal Use Plan For 2030 As G7 Climate Offer Stalls"
• "U.S. Aims To Sanction Brazil Deforesters, Adding Bite To Climate Fight"
• "Public Utility To Pipe Water To Residents Of ‘Gasland’ Town"
• BLM Announces New Proposed Oil And Gas Lease Sales In Nevada, Utah
• "Politics, Climate Conspire as Tigris and Euphrates Dwindle"
• "Wildlife Conference Boosts Protection For Sharks, Turtles"
• "Plastics Tsunami: Can A Landmark Treaty Stop Waste From Choking The Oceans?"
• Biodiversity: "Can Montreal Summit Deliver For Nature?"
• "Avian Flu Outbreak Wipes Out 50.54 Million U.S. Birds, A Record"
• "Whole Foods Decision To Pull Lobster Divides Enviros, Politicians"
• "Swedish Activists Sue State Over Its Climate Policies"
• "The Colorado River Compact Turns 100 Years Old. Is It Still Working?"
• Corn Nourishes Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Stressess Tribe
• Enviros Urge Md. Gov.-Elect Moore to Roll Back State Fossil Subsidies
• "Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest"
• COP27: Global Forestry Report Highlights Importance of Growing National Forest-Based Economies
• Scientists Discover 5 New Species of Black Corals Living Near Great Barrier Reef
• Record number of species to be regulated by CITES after CoP19
• Alarming manatee death toll in Florida prompts calls for endangered status
• EPA Announces the Release of Its Endangered Species Act Workplan Update
• A newly described cave bat in Sri Lanka indicates presence of more species
• EPA hit with court order on insecticide as it tackles endangered species compliance
• Tackling Marine Plastics in Thailand, from Community-based Actions to Policy: A special day to keep “Koh Yao clean by our hands”
• IUCN expresses concern over slow progress at COP27 while welcoming recognition of Nature-based Solutions
• IUCN leads development of a new manual for the management of invasive alien species in the EU, incorporating animal welfare
• Luxembourg becomes an IUCN Framework Partner to help combat climate change and nature loss
• Egyptian COP27 Presidency, Germany and IUCN announce ENACT Initiative for Nature-based Solutions
• IUCN statement to UN Climate Change Conference 2022
• Wildlife in a changing climate
• Feeding the world in a changing climate
• The Mangrove Breakthrough: a call to action for a critical ecosystem
• Kenya launches implementation of UN framework for ecosystem accounting
• $6.5M in Reimbursement Funds for Endangered Species Care on Way
• Verified after two decades: The fourth anaconda species
• Two New Species of Slender Gecko Reported from Yunnan Karsts
• Texas woman arrested after smuggling endangered spider monkey in box she claimed held beer
• New limu species from Papahānaumokuākea named after Kauaʻi scientist who died at 41
• "U.S. Proposes Rules To Limit Methane Leaks From Public Lands Drilling"
• "U.N. Mission Joins Growing Calls to Label Great Barrier Reef ‘In Danger’"
• "US to Auction Almost 1 Million Acres Off Alaska for Oil Drilling"
• For Many, the Global Warming Confab in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage
• "Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Is Erupting For The First Time Since 1984"
• Pennsylvania’s 1st Proposed Hazardous Waste Landfill Near Homes And Schools
• "On The Edge Of Retreat"
• "Major News Outlets Urge U.S. to Drop Its Charges Against Assange"
• "Drilled Down: Old School Climate Denial Is Back"
• "Giving Thanks for a Beloved Sugar Maple"
• Tanzania re-allocates 74000 hectares of conservation area for human activities
• Scientists in Peru discover two new endangered plant species
• "Biden To Honor Tribes With Nevada National Monument, His Biggest Yet"
• "DOJ Sues Jackson Over Water Crisis"
• "Air Pollution Linked To Almost A Million Stillbirths A Year"
• "NASA Cancels Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Satellite Due To Cost"
• "Mauna Loa Eruption Halts Key Atmospheric Measurements"
• "US Bat Species Devastated By Fungus Now Listed As Endangered"
• "Drying California Lake To Get $250M in US Drought Funding"
• Treaty On Plastics Must Cut Production To Ease Pollution, Some States Say
• Petition Circulators Lie To Calif. Voters about New Well Ballot Measure
• "Ancient Virus Revived From Russian Permafrost After 48,500 Years - Study"
• Two California Plants Saved From Extinction by Endangered Species Act
• Northern Long-Eared Bats Win ‘Endangered’ Status
• "Biden Promises Protections for Nevada’s Spirit Mountain"
• "U. S. to Pay Millions to Move Tribes Threatened by Climate Change"
• "COP15: Why The World Needs A New Deal To Protect Nature"
• "Lula Wants New Brazil Police Unit To Tackle Environmental Crimes"
• "CDC Expands Wastewater Testing For Polio To Michigan And Pennsylvania"
• "Gas Driller Pleads No Contest To Polluting Town’s Water"
• Puerto Rican Towns Sue Oil Companies Over Suppression Of Climate Science
• In Ancient Reindeer Forest, One Woman Finds A Way To Slow Climate Change
• "What Happens On The Colorado River’s Descent To ‘Dead Pool’"
• "Coastal Job: Underwater Cave Ecologist"
• New species of sea creatures discovered by researchers
• "EPA Seeks To Mandate More Use Of Ethanol And Other Biofuels"
• "Drought-Hit California Cities To Get Little Water From State"
• "Denver Gets Go-Ahead From EPA After Progress On Lead Pipes"
• "Feds List Dixie Valley Toad, Found Only In Nevada, As Endangered"
• "Florida Will Pull $2 Billion of Assets From BlackRock Over ESG"
• "California's Water Thieves Are Getting Away With It"
• Governments Subsidize Destruction Of Nature As They Promise To Protect It
• "With Federal Aid on the Table, Utilities Shift to Embrace Climate Goals"
• "Europe’s Surprising Record of Dam Removals"
• "Waste Pickers Risk Their Lives To Stop Plastic Pollution"
• Forest Fire Threatens Global Carbon Sinks and Population Centres under Rising Atmospheric Water Demand