Conservation News ~ 7 August 2023

• "US Weather: Flash Floods In The Northeast, Heatwave Intensifies"
• The US and China Are Restarting Climate Talks: Here’s Where Things Stand
• AAA Follows Farmers In Limiting Coverage In Florida, Citing Disaster Threat
• "Climate Aid, War Fallout Feature At Berlin Climate Talks"
• "Grid Transformer Supply Crunch Threatens Clean Energy Plans"
• "How A Saudi Firm Tapped A Gusher Of Water In Drought-Stricken Arizona"
• Rice Crops Threatened By El Nino After Grain Supplies Were Disrupted By War
• "States Struggle To Plug Oil Wells With Infrastructure Law Cash"
• "The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet"
• "Bringing Back Monarchs One Ranch at a Time"
• Southwest's Enduring Heat Wave Is Expected To Intensify Over The Weekend
• "Republicans Assail Kerry’s Climate Strategy as He Prepares for China Talks"
• "Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says"
• WHO Lists Sweetener Aspartame As Possible Cancer Cause. Some Say It’s Safe
• Houston To Relocate People Living Near Polluted Union Pacific Rail Yard
• EPA Finalizes Rule Furthering 40 Percent Phasedown Of Planet-Warming HFCs
• Oil And Gas Responsible For $77 Billion In Annual Us Health Damages: Study
• Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Drilling
• "European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law"
• "Cement Warms The Planet. This Green Version Just Got A Key Nod Of Approval."
• "Excessive Heat Is Baking US Southwest And Expected To Get Worse"
• EPA Proposes Tighter Limits on Lead Dust in Homes and Child Care Facilities
• "Farmers Insurance Pulls Out of Florida, Affecting 100,000 Policyholders"
• "Agriculture Dept. To Invest $300 Million To Measure Greenhouse Emissions"
• "Mountain Valley Pipeline Halted as Legal Wrangling Heats Up"
• "UAE's COP28 President Lays Out Plan For 'Brutally Honest' Climate Summit"
• As Budget Talks Heat Up, Republicans Ramp Up Attacks on Climate Spending
• "House Republicans Propose Deep Cuts For Interior, EPA"
• "FEMA Stretched Beyond Climate Response as Disasters Balloon"
• "Birds Get Revenge By Using Anti-Bird Spikes In Nests"
• 60 Percent of Threatened Species Lack Conservations Plans That Address Climate Change
• 17 new species discovered at Chinese world heritage site
• "John Kerry Hails China’s ‘Incredible Job’ On Renewables, Warns On Coal"
• Scientists Concerned Over Impact of Rising Fla. Water Temps on Coral Health
• Fuel Workers Are Dying Inhaling Gases – Despite US Warnings To Big Oil
• "Senate Adds Language Blocking Gas Stove Ban To Appropriations Bill"
• 9th Circuit Denies Bid By Greens And Tribes To Block Nevada Lithium Mine
• "Mountain Valley Pipeline Turns To Supreme Court"
• In N. Birmingham EPA Studies ‘Cumulative Impacts’ Of Pollution And Racism
• Shipping Rule Backfires, Diverting Sulfur Emissions From Air to Ocean
• As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Disaster-Proof Homes
• "The Great Plains: Bringing Back an ‘American Serengeti’"
• New Venomous Snake Species Discovered
• New species of tiny green, orange amphibian found in Brazil
• Golden paintbrush removed from endangered species list
• Rare South Sound blossom makes comeback, gets removed from endangered species list
• July Is On Track To Be The Hottest Month On Record; Worse Is Coming
• Scientists Say Record Heat Numbers Paint The Story Of A Warming World
• "The World’s Moving Closer To Deep-Sea Mining. There Are No Rules."
• Catastrophic Calif. Flood Plunged Marginalized Farmworkers Into Crisis
• Biden DOE Proposes Tighter Efficiency Rule For New Home Water Heaters
• 15 Billion Gallons/Yr Of Sewage-Polluted Water Flows Into Philly Rivers
• "EPA’s Top Cop Finally Cleared for Job as Senate Confirms Uhlmann"
• "Would You Drink Wastewater? What if It Was Beer?"
• Explorers Track Down Ancient Fruit Trees Before They Are Gone Forever
• "Sandhill Cranes Are Moving to Cities and Adopting Urban Lifestyles"
• New Biden Rule Would Make Companies Pay More To Drill On Public Lands
• Researchers Find Evidence Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Blood Of Pregnant Women
• Utilities’ Fossil Fuel Investments Driving Up Rates For The Most Vulnerable
• "World Will Miss 1.5C Warming Limit - Top UK Expert"
• Revealed: Media Blitz Against UK Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group
• "GOP Pushes Disastrous Environmental Plan As The Planet Bakes"
• "The Biden Administration Bets Big on ‘Climate Smart’ Agriculture"
• Race-Blind Biden Effort On Air Pollution Disparities Will Fail: Report
• "11 Wild Horses Dead After Helicopter Chase During Federal Roundup"
• "Domestic Rabbits Invade Florida Suburb Thanks To Illegal Breeder"
• "Biden Will Create National Monument To Honor Emmett Till"
• "Heat Wave Expected To Expand, Cover Most Of US"
• "Washington State Wildfire Threatens Homes, Farms, Gas Pipeline"
• "Canada Releases Framework To Phase Out Inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies"
• "UAE Says Committed To Meet CO2 Emissions Targets After Criticism"
• Texas Prisoners Struggle To Endure Heat Wave Without Air Conditioning
• "Pacific Seabed Mining Delayed as International Agency Finalizes Rules"
• Tucker Carlson's Replacement Also Spreads Climate Misinformation
• California Acts As Young Men Making Quartz Countertops Face Lung Damage
• "Bug-Eating Venus Flytrap Won’t Get Endangered Species Protection"
• USFWS finalizes rule allowing endangered species release outside historical range
• Feds give owl protected status, declare two Texas mussel species endangered
• Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
• Scientists discover new isopod species in the Florida Keys
• Climate Change Fingerprints On July Heat Around The Globe, Study Says
• "Lights Out For Incandescent Bulbs"
• "UN Starts Moving Oil From Yemen Tanker In Bid To Stop Disaster"
• Massachusetts Rejects Request To Discharge Radioactive Water Into Bay
• Baltimore Won’t Expand Help For Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups
• "Scientists Detect Sign That A Crucial Ocean Current Is Near Collapse"
• "Court Tosses EPA Permit Order For Troubled St. Croix Refinery"
• "Wildfires in Algeria Kill Dozens, Force Hundreds To Flee Homes"
• "Could the Next Pandemic Start at the County Fair?"
• "Tree Keepers: Where Sustaining the Forest Is a Tribal Tradition"
• "Biden to Announce Steps to Help Communities Deal With Extreme Heat"
• "White House Holds Methane Summit, Launches Task Force"
• "7 Automakers Join Forces To Double EV Fast-Charger Network In U.S."
• South Florida Waters Hit Hot Tub Temps, May Set World Seawater Record
• "‘Battle Plan’: How The Far Right Would Dismantle Climate Programs"
• Ominous Sign for COP28: G20 Again Shunned Deal to Phase Down Fossil Fuels
• "Where The Most U.S. Residents Bake Because Of Concrete And Lack Of Trees"
• 22 Attorneys General Oppose 3M Settlement Over PFAS In Water Systems
• "For This Smoky Summer, 12 New Books And Reports On Wildfires"
• "Can’t Beat Them? Eat Them: The Fight Against The US Wild Boar Plague"
• "Biden Announces Steps to Help Communities Deal With Extreme Heat"
• Senate Appropriators Spare Interior, EPA From Deep Cuts
• "Supreme Court Revives Mountain Valley Pipeline"
• "Forcing People To Work In Deadly Heat Is Mostly Legal In The U.S."
• "A Half-Million Americans May Have Tick-Linked Meat Allergy, C.D.C. Says"
• "As Florida Ocean Temperatures Soar, A Race To Salvage Imperiled Corals"
• "A Bottleneck on the Grid Threatens Clean Energy. New Rules Aim to Help."
• "As El Nino Fuels Fire Risk, Southeast Asia Braces For Haze Crisis"
• "New IPCC Head Says Open Climate 'Toolbox' To Keep 1.5C Goal Alive"
• House Sends Two Resolutions Overturning Endangered Species Rules To Biden
• "Biden Admin To Hike Fuel Economy Standards"
• "NEPA ‘Phase 2’ Revamp Aims To Reverse Trump, Boost Renewables"
• "A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization"
• One In Five Texans Lives In A Floodplain, State’s First Analysis Shows
• Western Canadian Town Evacuated As Wildfire Crosses Over From US
• "‘Vicious Cycle’: Heat Waves Ramp Up Global Burning Of Fossil Fuels"
• Heat Illuminates Plight Of Poorest Americans Without Air Conditioning
• "Russia’s Arms Buildup In Barents Sea Creating Toxic Legacy"
• "How Ocean Warming Is Killing a Prime Alaska Crab Fishery"
• "Why The Famed Appalachian Trail Keeps Getting Longer — And Harder"
• "Republicans Slam Biden NEPA Revamp, Threaten Permitting Talks"
• "Zero Oil Companies Bid In BLM’s Nevada Lease Sale"
• "It’s Not Just Hot. Climate Anomalies Are Emerging Around The Globe."
• Virginia Enviros File Notice They Will Challenge Youngkin’s RGGI Withdrawal
• "Leak Reveals ‘Touchy’ Issues For UAE’s Presidency Of UN Climate Summit"
• "Big Business Lobbies Against Heat Protections For Workers As US Boils"
• Fungal Disease Spreading Fast In US. A Hotter Climate Could Be To Blame.
• "Climate Education Suffers From Partisan Culture Wars"
• Mojave Desert, Joshua Trees Burning In California’s Biggest Fire Of Year
• "Alaska’s Newest Gold Rush: Seaweed"
• House sends two resolutions overturning endangered species rules to Biden's desk
• EPA says three widely used pesticides driving hundreds of endangered species toward extinction
• Stream Frog, teeny-tiny creature on China mountain, turns out to be new species
• Snowpack in the Sierra Sits at an Astounding 1,000% of Normal
• New North Sea oil and gas licences will send 'wrecking ball' through climate commitments
• 'Giant' orange crab spider found lurking in Amazon rainforest and it's a new species
• Why California is having its best wildfire season in 25 years
• New species of blind spider discovered in Australia
• Extreme Heat Cuts Into US Small Business, Worker Hours In July: Report
• "White House To Agencies: Tally Projects’ Financial Damage To Ecosystems"
• "Indonesia Cracks Down on the Scourge of Imported Plastic Waste"
• "Protect This Place: World-Renowned Elwha River Threatened by State Logging"
• Beijing Records 29 Inches Of Rain In 5 Days, Most In At Least 140 Years
• Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide” Shows the Changing Landscape of Climate Denial
• "Los Angeles County Has a Fruit Fly Problem: What To Know"
• "EPA Again Blocks Colorado Air Pollution Permit For Suncor"
• Once Endangered, Brazil’s Golden Monkeys Have Rebounded From Yellow Fever
• If You Miss August's Blue Supermoon, Your Next Chance Is In 9 Years