Conservation News ~ 6 May 2022

• "Firefighters Battling New Mexico Blaze Brace For Wind"
• "EPA Staff Backs Status Quo On Ozone Limits In Blow To Enviros"
• "Why Americans Became More Vulnerable to Oil Price Spikes"
• "Buffeted by Weather, a Historic Black Town Strives To Endure"
• "Rescuing The Massive Swamp U,S, Depends On But Has Mostly Forgotten"
• New Iron Curtain Eroding Norway's Hard-Won Ties With Russia On Arctic
• "Rob Bilott On His 20-Year Fight Against Forever Chemicals"
• "EPA Proposes Scaling Back Weedkiller Tied To Cancer"
• Calif. Accuses Exxon Deceiving Public, Push ‘Myth’ Of Plastics Recycling
• "The Tick That Makes People Allergic To Red Meat Is in D.C."
• In Mexico, a divine bird inspires a community’s sustainable forestry efforts
• Q&A with Whitley Award winner Sonam Tashi Lama
• Why are Florida manatees showing up in Cuba and Mexico?
• ‘Enough is enough’: California subpoenas ExxonMobil over plastic pollution
• Scaling Palauan tradition to regional fisheries: Q&A with Noah Idechong
• Conservation costs are rarely reported, making it difficult to prioritize funding
• Rare birth of Asiatic cheetah cubs in Iran
• 200 New Freshwater Fish Species Discovered
• Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns
• Land restoration requires immediate action and Indigenous land rights, says U.N. report
• With protections restored, tribal council charts new path for Bears Ears
• A seagrass restoration project to preserve the past may also protect the future
• "Biden Administration Begins $3 Billion Plan for Electric Car Batteries"
• "Progressives Seize On Quarterly Oil Profits To Call For Windfall Tax"
• "A Longer Life For Diablo Canyon? Newsom Touts Nuke Extension"
• Florida Black Woman Fights Polluting Landfills Made From Sand Pits
• Gas Giants Ghostwrote Letters Of Support From Elected Officials
• "Texas Stumbles In Its Effort To Punish Green Financial Firms"
• "Pandemic, War, Politics Hamper Global Push For Climate Action"
• "Extreme Heat Kills At Least 25 In India's Maharashtra State"
• "Biden’s Environmental Civil Rights Effort Wrestles With Caseload"
• "Is That an Outlaw Lawn? Las Vegas Has a New Approach to Saving Water"
• Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries
• Prey-go-neesh (California condors) will soon fly over Northern California’s iconic Redwoods for the first time in more than a century - the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks will facilitate the release of the first two California condors to take flight in the center of the bird’s former range since 1892.
• "Historic Drought Forces Feds to Withhold Water From States"
• "U.S. Plastic Recycling Rate Drops To Close To 5% - Report"
• "Get Ready for Another Energy Price Spike: High Electric Bills"
• "EPA Announces $40M To Help Restore Chesapeake Bay"
• "Brazil Dams: 1 Million Live Close To Danger"
• Forgotten Toxic Dump Site Raises New Worries For This L.A. Neighborhood
• "Scientists Believe Beavers Can Build Resilience In Northwest Waterways"
• Calif. Bill Could Require 'Blue Carbon' To Offset Coastal Development
• "Condors Soar Again Over Northern California Coastal Redwoods"
• "Why We Need Slow Solutions to Solve Our Water Problems"
• A Butterfly That Frequents Southwest Colorado Could Be Put On The Endangered Species List
• Researchers discover new species of salamander from Gulf Coastal plains hotspot
• India to set up 30,000 MW offshore wind power, 50,000 MW of solar capacity
• Surge in deforestation as Brazil pushes to pave a forgotten Amazon road
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• Indonesia to probe scale of tax-dodging illegal oil palm plantations
• Indigenous group fights cattle onslaught, defends uncontacted relatives in the Gran Chaco
• Partnering with farmers is key to land restoration success (commentary)
• Sri Lanka’s environmentalists brace for economic meltdown’s toll on nature
• Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health
• To secure a future for wildlife, look to their distant past, study says
• Senate Panel Approves Kigali Amendment in Bipartisan Vote
• "E.U.’s Russian Oil Ban Could Reduce Global Emissions"
• "Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr"
• "EPA Recommends Army Corps Not Reissue PolyMet Permit"
• "Supreme Court Leak Strikes Fear Among Environmental Lawyers"
• "In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar"
• Floods Threaten N. Dakota Dam, Border Area
• "What Are Millets And Can They Help Create Global Food Security?"
• "Arctic Inupiaq Leaders Take Aim At Biden Oil Policy"
• "Jamestown: America's First English Settlement Now Endangered"
• One in Five Reptiles Worldwide Are Threatened With Extinction
• California drought: Officials worry there's not enough water to get through summer without cuts
• Swapping 20% of beef for microbial protein 'could halve deforestation'
• California Coastal Conservancy unanimously approved The Trust for Public Land's acquisition grant to support the permanent preservation of the Banning Ranch property
• New species of Isodon discovered in Indian Eastern Himalaya
• "AP Analysis Finds Growing Number Of Poor, High-Hazard Dams"
• "Report Says Michigan 2020 Dam Failures Were 'Preventable'"
• "Many Rural Towns Have Neglected Drinking Water Systems for Decades"
• "Biden Admin Unveils Long-Awaited EJ Strategy"
• "Ukraine’s Battlefield Is Haunted by Putin’s Chemical Weapons Legacy"
• "Who Will Profit From Saving Scotland’s Bogs?"
• "Bird Flu Takes Unheard-Of Toll On Bald Eagles, Other Birds"
• Massive Amount Of Water Discovered Below Antarctic Ice Sheet
• "EPA Accelerates Asbestos Crackdown"
• Scientists: Endangered Porpoise Not Doomed — If Humans Stop Killing Them
• Santa Cruz is getting a $5.4 million wildlife tunnel crossing next year
• Scientists discover greener route to widely used industrial material
• After more than a century, California Condors soar over redwoods once again
• The Devil’s Hole pupfish has paddled back from the brink in a hellish desert domain
• There aren’t enough batteries in the world to power our huge cars
• New frog species discovered in Australia and it’s already endangered
• From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
• Citizen participation: a key achievement at the first COP to the Escazú Agreement
• “We are on the front line”: Q&A with Indigenous land defender Adiela Jineth Mera Paz
• Indonesian government lagging independent effort to recognize Indigenous lands
• A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters
• Ecuador promises more openness of fisheries information under new initiative
• Amid war, Ukrainians are tracking Russia’s crimes against the environment
• Putin’s financial interest in Brazil’s Amazon highways (commentary)
• Podcast: Wonder on wings: The fierce nature and enduring beauty of birds
• Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia