Conservation News ~ 7 April 2023

• "Nations Approve Key UN Science Report On Climate Change"
• "States Cannot Block Hazardous Waste From Ohio Derailment, EPA Says"
• WHO Accuses China of Hiding Data That May Link Covid’s Origins to Animals
• Md., Va. Race to Save Dwindling Commercial Fisheries in Chesapeake Bay
• "Hawaii Supreme Court Ruling Bolsters Rights-Based Climate Cases"
• Babesiosis, A Tickborne Disease, Is On The Rise In Northeast: CDC
• Big Oil Firms Touted Algae As Climate Fix. Now All Have Pulled Funding
• Utilities Spent Big Preparing Power Grid For Storms – And Still Failed
• Brazil Tackles Illegal Miners, But Finds Mercury Legacy Harder To Erase
• "BNSF Fuel Train Derails On Swinomish Reservation"
• U.S. urged to relist manatee as endangered species, not as threatened
• New species of orchid found in gardens, planters in Japan
• Salsa dancing spiders among 600 new species found in Australia
• Two new species of yeast named after Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips
• Scientists Deliver ‘Final Warning’ On Climate: Act Now Or It’s Too Late
• "Navajo Nation Water Rights Case Heard Before Supreme Court"
• "Biden To Create 2 National Monuments, In Nevada And Texas"
• "Judge Halts Biden Administration Waters Rule in Texas, Idaho"
• "Biden Issues First Veto, Rejecting Bill To Reverse ESG Rule"
• Fossil Fuel Execs See ‘Golden Age’ for Gas, If They Can Brand It as ‘Clean’
• "A Black Community In Arizona Battles Power Expansion Plans Again"
• "China's Mekong Dams Turn Thai Fishing Villages Into 'Ghost Towns'"
• "Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead In Somalia Drought Last Year"
• "Waste Pickers Collect Food Waste, Help Combat Climate Change"
• Vjosa, one of our last wild rivers, becomes Europe's first Wild River National Park
• Our relationship with plastic needs rethinking: a Blueprint for the journey to zero plastic waste
• From cleaner oceans to thriving communities: the economic impacts of plastic pollution
• Envisioning the implementation of the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas until 2030
• International Women’s Day 2023: Celebrating Indigenous women leaders in inclusive conservation
• Innovation and technological change and education in the digital age as driver of gender equality
• "Residents Sue St. James Parish To Halt Chemical Plants"
• Older Americans Blockade Banks to Protest Fossil Fuel Financing
• "The Dark History Of Using Water As A Weapon"
• "Biden Will Let Calif. Lead On Electric Trucks, Despite Industry Protest"
• "Global Renewables Capacity Grew By 10% Last Year - IRENA"
• "Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable"
• "Rise Of Deadly Fungus Spotlights Hospital Infection-Control Challenges"
• "Brazil Evicts Miners From Yanomami Territory, Prepares For More Removals"
• "Why Americans Should Eat Lentils Every Day"
• "Obsidian Cliff: Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years"
• Billions Of People Lack Access To Clean Drinking Water: U.N. Report
• "Trump Appointees Interfered To Weaken EPA Assessment Of Toxic Chemical"
• "As Enforcement Lags, Toxic Coal Ash Keeps Polluting U.S. Water"
• "Norfolk Southern CEO Dodges Question On Support For Railway Reform Bill"
• "California Sea Otters Killed By Rare Parasite Strain: Study"
• Kentucky Floodwaters Receded 6 Months Ago. For Many, The Crisis Goes On
• "Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021"
• "Geothermal Power, Cheap and Clean, Could Help Run Japan. So Why Doesn’t It?"
• Musk's Company Plans To Dump Wastewater In The Colorado. Locals Concerned
• "Big Sky Bison Battles Spell Trouble For Haaland"
• Asteroid Mining Startup About to Launch First Mission
• Elusive animal spotted outside its usual range for the first time in over 30 years
• New species of jumping spiders found in India, study shows
• Two new species of poisonous birds found in jungle.
• New species of gecko discovered among leaves in India
• Number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico drops 22%
• Twin Amur leopards, the world's most endangered big cat species, born at San Diego Zoo
• Three new species of glowing sea worms found in Japan
• Two new carnivorous plant species found in Ecuador
• New species of beetle named after former California governor Jerry Brown
• Endangered Komodo dragons hatch at Spanish zoo
• Brazil Indigenous group fights to save endangered evergreen tree
• Nine caribou illegally harvested in conservation area
• Critical habitat proposed for 12 endangered species, all on Hawai'i Island
• EPA: Sulfoxaflor Insecticide Likely Puts 63 Endangered Species in Jeopardy of Extinction
• California's snowpack soars to record high after 17 atmospheric rivers
• Banks Pledged Emissions Cuts - But Still Invest Billions On US Gas Exports
• "Gulf Drilling Safer 13 Years After BP Spill, But Major Gaps Remain: Report
• "Johnson & Johnson Offers $8.9B To Settle Talc Baby Powder Claims"
• "White House Announces Clean Energy Initiatives On Coal"
• "A Push to Turn Farm Waste Into Fuel"
• EPA Estimates 9.2 Million Lead Water Pipes In US, Funds Some Replacements
• "Septic Tank Permitting In Maryland Faces Backlogs, Staff Shortages"
• "Raw Sewage Blights Once-Idyllic Beaches On Isle Of Wight"
• "Mass Yellowstone Hunt Kills 1,150 Bison"
• Native Seed Shortage Slowing Land Restoration, Crucial For Tackling Climate
• "Mountain Valley Pipeline's West Virginia Water Permit Tossed By Court"
• "UAE Plans Huge Oil And Gas Expansion As It Hosts Un Climate Summit"
• "Bid To Pause Conocophillips' Alaska Willow Project Fails"
• "Groups Petition US EPA To Force Reporting Of Waste Incinerator Emissions"
• California’s Snowpack Among Deepest Ever. Get Ready For The ‘Big Melt’
• Majority-Black Town Fights To Stop Land Seizure For Gravel Quarry Rail Link
• England’s Top Beaches Faced 8,500 Hours Of Sewage Dumping Last Year: Study
• CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, New Study Finds
• "Energy Dept. To Ban Sale Of Some Light Bulbs: Here’s Why"
• "Feds Reject ESA Protection For Coyotes That Resemble Wolves"’
• "Violent US Storms Kill At Least 32 People"
• "New Rules Will Make Many Electric Cars Ineligible for Tax Credits"
• "EPA Approves California Rules Phasing Out Diesel Trucks"
• "DOJ Sues Norfolk Southern Over Toxic Train Derailment In Ohio"
• "Oil Prices Soar On Producer Output Cuts; World Shares Higher"
• "New Oilfield In The North Sea Would Blow The Uk’S Carbon Budget"
• Meeting Closes Without Resolving Whether Deep-Sea Mining Can Start In July
• "Harvard Professor’s Fossil Fuel Links Under Scrutiny Over Climate Grant"
• "Unheralded Environmentalist: Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy"
• "Meatball From Long-Extinct Mammoth Created By Food Firm"
• "House GOP Approves Broad Bill To ‘Unleash’ American Energy"
• "BLM Proposes Seismic Shift In Lands Management"
• Biden To Announce Federal Funding For Mississippi Tornado Recovery Friday
• "EPA Proposes to Add First-Ever Navajo Site to Superfund List"
• "Long-Awaited Rules for Carbon Offset Market Disappoint Experts"
• "‘Gone Wrong’: Doubts On Carbon-Credit Program In Peru Forest"
• "Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production"
• "Court Brings Mountain Valley Pipeline Closer To Completion"
• "Australia Makes Biggest Carbon Polluters Curb Emissions"
• "Horses Came To American West By Early 1600s, Study Finds"
• "Senate Votes To Overturn Biden Water Rule"
• "House GOP To Pass Energy Package With Eye On Gas Prices, 2024"
• "Biden Administration Sells Oil And Gas Leases In The Gulf Of Mexico"
• "EPA Oversight Hampered by Funding Gap, Watchdog Tells Lawmakers"
• UN Wants the World Court to Address Nations’ Climate Obligations
• "EPA Leaves Americans In The Dark On Toxic Air Pollution"
• Rising Antarctic Ice Melt Will Badly Slow Global Ocean Flows: Study
• "Elderly Swiss Women Bring European Court's First Climate Case"
• Homes Evacuated After Train Carrying Ethanol Derails, Burns In Minnesota
• "Cockroach Sex Took a Strange Turn. Now More Mutations Have Emerged."
• "Electricity Generated by Renewables Surpasses Coal for First Time in US"
• Lethal Supercell Storms To Hit South More Often As World Warms: New Study
• "EU Countries Approve 2035 Phaseout of CO2-Emitting Cars"
• "White House Threatens Veto For Republican Energy Package"
• "Train Derails In Rural North Dakota, Causes Chemical Spill"
• "What to Know About Philly's Tap Water After Chemical Spill"
• Bill Aiming To Preserve Kentucky’s Coal Power Plants Becomes Law
• Thousands of Pounds of PFAS Chemicals” Have Been Injected Into Texas Wells
• "California Lawmakers OK Potential Fines For High Gas Prices"
• Opinion: "I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake"
• "Tornado Tears Across Mississippi, More Than Two Dozen Dead"
• Ohio Bill Would Require Teaching Of ‘Both Sides’ On Climate Change
• "Much Of West Coast Faces Ban To Fish Salmon Amid Low Stocks"
• "Canada Pledges Great Lakes Funding After Trudeau-Biden Talks"
• Scientists Uncover Startling Amounts of DDT Along Seafloor Off LA Coast
• "House Slated To Take Up Major Energy Package Next Week"
• "Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in US Agriculture, Goes on Trial"
• Group Says Texas Fails To Hold Polluters Accountable For Unexpected Emissions
• "In Brazil's Amazon, Carbon Credit Project Halted Over Land Dispute"
• Worry And Suspicion Reign As Once-Dry Tulare Lake Drowns Calif. Farmland
• "How China, the US and Others Watered Down a Key UN Climate Document"
• "Amendments Could Scramble House GOP Energy Bill"
• "Marines, Toxic Water and Lawyers: A Fight Over Billions in Fees"
• "Army Corps Further Delays Decision On Great Lakes Oil Tunnel"
• DOE To Require More Efficient Window Air Conditioners, Air Cleaners
• "House Fails To Override Biden’s First Veto"
• "Oil Spills And Near Misses: More Ghost Tankers Ship Sanctioned Fuel"
• "Radioactive Water Leaks At Minn. Nuclear Plant For 2nd Time"
• "Scientists Say Mine Plan Claiming No Swamp Harm Has Errors"
• "The Surfer, The Scientist And The Big-Wave Beach At A Breaking Point"
• California Lake Flooded for First Time in 110 Years After Atmospheric River
• NASA Uses 30-Year Satellite Record to Track and Project Rising Seas
• New Species of Snook Identified in Florida
• Resolution to Overturn Biden Rule on Endangered Species Act
• "EPA to Tighten Limits on Mercury and Other Pollutants From Power Plants"
• Biden DOI Announces $585 Million For Water Infrastructure Projects
• "New Mexico Governor Signs Bill To Limit Prescribed Fires"
• "N.Y. Governor Walks Back Push to ‘Weaken’ Climate Law After Uproar"
• "India's Power Output Grows At Fastest Pace In 33 Years, Fuelled By Coal"
• China Accounts For Two-Thirds Of World's Planned New Coal Power: Research
• "Brazil Court Backs Crackdown On Illegal Gold Mining In Amazon"
• "In Pristine Alaska, an Oil Giant Prepares to Drill for Decades"
• After Growing GM Corn For Decades, Some US Farmers Open To Mexican Ban
• "Snot Otters And Other Wildlife Are Not Rock Stars. Should They Be Saved?"
• Biden-Harris Administration Invests Nearly $34M to Strengthen Wood Products Economy
• Three species of extremely primitive spider discovered in China
• "Biden Administration to Curb Toxic Pollutants From Chemical Plants"
• "Biden Is Set To Propose Toughest-Ever Rules On Car Pollution To Spur EVs"
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose At ‘Alarming’ Rate Last Year, US Data Shows
• "Biden Targets Race, Gender Impacts With Regulation Proposal"
• "Biden Vetoes Clean Water Act Resolution"
• "Southwest Alaska Tribes Sue To Stop Donlin Gold Project"
• "‘Forever Chemicals’ Linked To Infertility In Women, Study Shows"
• ‘Scary’ Data On The Last Ice Age Raises Concerns About Future Sea Levels
• Displaced Victims Living In Tents While Ian Insurance Claims Still Open
• "Scientists Find Deepest-Ever Fish, 5 Miles Beneath Ocean's Surface"
• Judge deals another blow to Tejon Ranchcorp Project
• Scientists find deepest fish ever recorded at 8300 metres underwater near Japan
• Great Indian Bustard chick hatches from birds reared in captivity
• A shortage of native seeds is slowing land restoration across the US
• Discovery of a new topological phase could lead to exciting developments in nanotechnology
• Four healthy cheetah cubs born into Kuno National park
• Tanapa to reintroduce rhinos to Mikumi after three decades
• Pumas utilize sly strategy of fertilizing plants that recruit prey to hunting grounds
• Two newly discovered Andes Mountain plant species have an appetite for instects
• New species of colorful fish with yellow head identified in Australian museum
• Heliogen: concentrated solar power plant produces temperature of 2700 F
• Court Victory for Humpback Whales
• 1400 year old mural of 2-faced men unearthed in Peru may allude to cosmic realms
• Scientists find way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans
• California cancels salmon fishing season