Conservation News ~ 7 May 2021

• Behind the buzz of ESG investing, a focus on tech giants and no regulation
• Deadly landslide hits Indonesian dam project in orangutan habitat, again
• South African dehorning initiative aims for ‘zero poached’ white rhinos
• In Project Amazônia 2.0, communities and technology team up for nature
• Time is running out for embattled Pacific leatherback sea turtles
• Death of a Sri Lankan icon highlights surge in elephant electrocutions
• A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations
• Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary
• 100-Plus Groups Demand Actions Critical to Protecting Endangered Species, Wildlife Refuges
• Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site
• US adds Yangtze sturgeon fish to endangered species list
• Minnesota Zoo strives to save endangered butterflies
• "E.P.A. to Announce Phase-Down of Powerful Greenhouse Gases"
• "California Lawmakers Seek Cleanup of Old Dumped DDT Barrels"
• Forest Offsets Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into Atmosphere
• "RIP Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, 1962-2021"
• First-Ever US Release of GMO Mosquitoes Begins In Florida Keys
• "Glacial Lakes Threaten Millions With Flooding As Planet Heats Up"
• "Dozens of Canada’s First Nations Lack Drinking Water: ‘Unacceptable’"
• As Extreme Weather Batters Farm Country, Banks Ignore Financial Risks
• "Water Wonk With Hill, Interior Chops To Lead Army Corps"
• "Interior Department Appoints First Native American Chief Of Staff"
• Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site
• ‘Climate emergency’: Hawaii is the first state to call it like it is
• Chile’s CONAF and IUCN to start a historic process for the country’s Protected Areas
• Wildlife expert ordered by council to tear up garden full of endangered species wins fight
• Army Corps Sued for Failure to Protect Waterways, Endangered Wildlife From Pipeline Construction
• US fights new deadline for rare plant protections in Nevada
• New species of shrew discovered in Andamans' Narcondam Island
• New Species of Deepwater Snapper Discovered
• "EPA Hits Troubled Virgin Islands Oil Refinery With A Violation Notice"
• "Memphis Pipeline Faces Environmental Justice Reckoning"
• "Leaked Docs: Gas Industry Secretly Fights Electrification"
• "A Growing Summertime Risk for Cities: Power Failures During Heat Waves"
• "U.S. Approves Massive Solar Project In California Desert"
• "California Senator Seeks Expansion Of Land, Water Protection"
• Environmentalists Sue Army Corps Of Engineers Over Pipeline Permitting
• "Biden Plan to Boost Public Transit Funding: Visionary or Wasteful?"
• "DuPont Loses Plastic Pollution Vote With Record 81% Rebellion"
• "Breeding Sea Stars in a Lab to Rehabilitate Warming Oceans"
• Norwegian Scientists Want to Launch Floating Solar Power Plants
• Chile’s CONAF and IUCN to start a historic process for the country’s Protected Areas
• Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists
• Brazil’s Bolsonaro vowed to work with Indigenous people. Now he’s investigating them
• Did you know how many insects a Giant Anteater can eat in a day? Candid Animal Cam
• A Colombian national park reveals its natural secrets through camera traps
• We can prevent the next pandemic (commentary)
• Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns
• Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river
• ‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)
• With baby animals, patience pays: Photographer describes new book of intimate portraits
• Feds deny protection for salamanders threatened by dam
• New species of mammal discovered from Narcondam Island
• New algae species found in Ecuador glacier
• "Enforcement: Internal EPA Memo Urges Agents To Up Inspections"
• Chemicals: Biden's 'End Cancer' Pledge Begs For Environmental Oversight
• "Electricity: Report Offers Biden Framework For A Clean Energy Standard"
• "Senate Democrats Announce $73 Billion Clean Bus Plan"
• "America’s New Normal: A Degree Hotter Than Two Decades Ago"
• "Why Won’t This Giant Oil Pipeline Reveal Its Secret Backers?"
• Streams And Lakes Have Rights, A County Decided. Now They’re Suing Fla.
• "Vital Soil Organisms Being Harmed By Pesticides, Study Shows"
• Nuts About Agroforestry: Can Hazelnuts Transform Midwest Farming?"
• "Bringing Beavers Back To The Beaver State"
• Popular opposition halts a bridge project in a Philippine coral haven
• Absorbent and yellow and … mobile? Sea sponges on the move in Arctic Ocean
• ‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang
• The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?
• Deforestation-free beef stymied by Brazil’s unequal supply chain
• Water crisis in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara linked to mining, observers say
• Chinese Greenhouse Emissions Now Larger Than All Developed Countries
• "Emissions Cuts Could Drop the Impact of Melting Ice on Oceans by Half"
• "Maine Fishing Interests Seek Total Ban On Offshore Wind Energy"
• "Environmental Enforcement Tool Still Stymied by Trump Regulation"
• "A Giant Organic Farm Faces Criticism That It's Harming The Environment"
• "Controversial Mining Operation Ignoring Orders To Halt"
• "U.S. EPA To Hand Over Biofuel Exemption Documents To GAO Probe"
• "U.S. Eyes Nuclear Reactor Tax Credit To Meet Climate Goals -Sources"
• "Deaths Linked To Soot From Gas, Biomass Overtake Coal"
• "Secrets Of The Dead Wood: Ancient Oaks Hold Key To New Life"
• Biden administration announces plans to triple protected
• Surprising Sand Fly Find Yields New Species of Bacteria
• Courts can no longer protect companies from climate flak
• Giant Sequoia found still smoldering after 2020
• Biden administration lays out 30x30 vision to conserve nature
• Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists
• Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it absorbed over past 10 years
• Costa Rica local indigenous surfers rescue crying baby Pilot whale
• New species of pelomedusoid turtle found in Madagascar
• Zimbabwe considers mass elephant killing, first time since 1988
• Three new species of soil mites discovered
• Rare white-beaked dolphins spotted off Essex coast
• California just hit 95% renewable energy
• Cleaner ‘Bridge’  fuels are killing up to 46,000 Americans per year
• Thousands of baby sea starts born at UW lab are sign of hope for endangered species
• New York Court of Appeals agrees to hear the habeas corpus case of nonhuman rights of Elephant
• Three new US states enter arms race to criminalize protests
• Homeland Security to repair damage created by border wall
• One species of hoolock gibbon is actually two
• South African government agrees to bring an end to the captive lion breeding industry
• Parts of Southern Arizona named critical habitat for threatened cuckoo, snake
• Biden administration cancels border wall construction
• UK students sue government over human rights impact of climate crisis