Conservation News ~ 7 January 2022

• "Germany Calls Nuclear Power ‘Dangerous,’ Rejects EU Plan"
• "Ormat Nevada Geothermal Project Approval Before a Federal Judge"
• "Hawaii Upholds Order Requiring Navy To Drain Fuel Tanks"
• "Famed Fossil Hunter And Conservationist Richard Leakey Dies At 77"
• "Jackpile Mine Toxic Legacy Continues At Laguna Pueblo"
• "Changing Climate Parches Afghanistan, Exacerbating Poverty"
• "EPA To Require More Facilities To Report Releases Of Carcinogenic Gas"
• Jump in Deforestation Of World's Most Biodiverse Savanna Alarms Scientists
• "Advocates Call EPA 'Forever Chemical' Testing Announcement Insufficient"
• "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On"
• "Colorado Residents Ponder the Road Ahead After Wildfires"
• Ecologist Thomas Lovejoy, Who Urged Preserving Amazon Rainforest, Dies
• "E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92"
• "Solar Power Projects See The Light on Former Appalachian Coal Land"
• "Powerful Methane Cloud Seen by Satellite Came From Georgia Pipe"
• "Germany Shuts Down Half Of Its 6 Remaining Nuclear Plants"
• In Most Polluted SF Neighborhood, Polluters Operated Without Permits
• "China Fires Up Giant Coal Power Plant In Face Of Calls For Cuts"
• "As Its Topsoil Washes Away, The Corn Belt Is Losing Yields — And Carbon"
• "This Tree Has Stood Here For 500 Years. Will It Be Sold For $17,500?"
• Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of ‘animal welfare’ that depends on deeper understanding of animals’ lives
• Lawsuit Launched to Protect Tucson Shovel-Nosed Snakes Under Endangered Species Act
• Giant New Species of Begonia Discovered in Tibet
• New species of crustacean named after internationally acclaimed writer Andrzej Stasiuk
• New Species of Orchids Discovered in Sichuan, China
• Researchers discover two new species of rare wasp
• 5 new species of reptiles identified in Iran
• Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
• More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows
• E.O. Wilson’s last dream
• Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes
• Rare turtles keep washing up on Cape Cod. “Turtle movers” fly them to Texas
• A new species of glow-in-the-dark shark has been discovered in New Zealand
• Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber
• In round 2 of Philippine geothermal project, tribes dig in for a greater say
• As its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon
• Dual pressures of hunting, logging threaten wildlife in Myanmar, study shows
• Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter
• Urban ecology that saved Argentina’s Rosario held up as a model for others
• China’s building spree in Nepal casts shadow over Himalayan ecosystem
• Court order blocks Shell’s seismic surveys off South Africa’s Wild Coast
• Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts
• Burnt pellets complicate impact of plastic spill off Sri Lanka, study finds
• Agricultural frontier advances in Nicaraguan biosphere reserve
• Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021
• Mongabay’s 10 most popular posts of 2021
• How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?
• New shrews just dropped: Sulawesi yields up 14 freshly described species
• NASA-NOAA Tech Will Aid Marine Oil Spill Response
• Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate. 2022 Trouble Looms
• "Regulatory Fight Looms Over First-Ever Air Toxics Addition"
• "US Judge Blocks Work At Nevada Geothermal Plant For 90 Days"
• "Federal Report IDs New Carcinogens"
• "Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic"
• PG&E Power Line Sparked The Nearly Million-Acre Dixie Fire: Probe
• "What To Watch At DOE, FERC, Interior in 2022"
• "Six Hot Topics For Climate Change And Nature Policy In 2022"
• "Off-Season 'Cover' Crops Expand As U.S. Growers Eye Low-Carbon Future"
• "The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Island"
• Florida's Panama City Crayfish Protected Under Endangered Species Act
• Researchers Discover New Species Of Wasp-like Flower Flies
• New species of catfish discovered in Milak river
• Indonesia’s Womangrove collective reclaims the coast from shrimp farms
• Podcast: Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness
• In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss
• Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’
• Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability
• For species on the very brink of extinction, cloning is a loaded last resort
• Light-fingered monkeys threaten critically endangered Príncipe thrush
• In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities
• In Indonesia’s Sulawesi, a community works to defuse blast-fishing crisis
• Community control of forests hasn’t slowed deforestation, Indonesia study finds
• More Zoom, less climate gloom as conferences move online, study finds
• As temperatures rise, so does risk of kidney disease, study finds
• Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology
• "Va. Governor-Elect Taps Trump EPA Chief For Key Post"
• "EPA's Failure To Disclose Chemical Health Risk Draws Ire"
• EPA Prevented Staff From Warning Public About Widely Used Carcinogen
• Biden Administration Eyes Wind Leases Off California’s Coast
• "This Vast Wildfire Lab Is Helping Foresters Prepare for a Hotter Planet"
• N Dakota Judge Rules 1000s Of Disputed DAPL Documents Are Public Records
• "Panel Probes Trump Aide Over NPS Permit For Jan. 6 Rally"
• "Texas Enacts Nation’s Strongest Flood Disclosure Law"
• Charges Dropped Against Journalists Arrested on Wet’suwet’en Territory
• "6 Big Environmental Stories to Watch in 2022"
• Amazing new species discovered include 'ghost' orchid and 'exploding fireworks' flower
• Leonardo 'Tree' Caprio: new species named after star
• Warmer, oxygen-poor waters threaten world’s ‘most heavily exploited’ fish
• ‘Great Blue Wall’ aims to ward off looming threats to western Indian Ocean
• "Biden To Tour Damage From Colorado's Most Destructive Wildfire"
• "Virginia Democrats Aim to Block Trump’s EPA Chief From State Agency"
• Over 40% of Americans Live In Counties Hit By Climate Disasters In 2021
• Can Roadless Areas Help Stem the Extinction Crisis in the U.S.?
• Interior: US Has Twice As Many Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells As Was Thought
• "First Advanced Reactor Proposal Suffers Setback"
• "Monarch Butterfly Conservation Efforts Improve. Are They Enough?"
• "Health Risks of Smoke and Ozone Rise in the West as Wildfires Worsen"
• "Groups File Complaint Against Water Utility Over Lead Pipes"
• In the Year of the Electric Truck, Some Real Talk from Texas Auto Dealers
• US becomes world’s top exporter of liquified natural gas
• Lawsuit launched to protect imperiled Kirtland’s snake
• California adopts drought rules outlawing water wasting with fines of up to $500
• Goldman Sachs announces commitment to set 2030 emissions reduction targets
• Bennet ‘deeply concerned’ about oil trains in Colorado as feds approve Utah project
• Airborne DNA used to detect insect species in breakthrough for ecologists
• England’s farmers to be paid to rewild land
• Embracing a wetter future, the Dutch turn to floating homes
• Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5C
• Tucson shovel-nosed snake weeds Endangered Species Act protection
• China switched on its nuclear fusion device
• American National Parks reckon with record-smashing year
• Monarch population soars 4,900 percent since last year in thrilling 2021 western migration
• Law change allows wild birds to be killed to protect game birds in England
• Jaguar released in Argentina to help endangered species
• India saw record 126 tiger deaths in 2021
• Developers cancel Oregon pipeline and LNG export terminal
• Richard Leakey dies