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Conservation News ~ 7 May 2021

5/7/2021

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  • 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
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