Conservation News ~ 8 July 2022

• Scientists discover a new giant waterlily that was hiding in plain sight for 177 years
• Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park
• Habitat loss, climate change send hyacinth macaw reeling back into endangered status
• Peru’s Amazon rainforest is threatened by an ecosystem of environment crime (commentary)
• Protecting Brazil’s Amazon could be a bargain — if the government were willing to pay
• Rare crocodiles on the brink of extinction will be raised at North Carolina aquarium
• Raise-and-release program keeping Nepal’s gharials alive can be improved, study says
• Lawsuit launched to challenge new federal rule that fails to recover Mexican gray wolves
• Carnivorous plant that traps prey underground is the 1st of its kind to be discovered
• Biden Administration Offers an Offshore Drilling Plan. Few Backers
• Shredded Trees, Dead Dolphins And Wildfires — How War Hurts Nature
• "Youngkin Appoints Former Trump EPA Head To New Deregulation Office"
• "Environmental Justice Advocates Slam Supreme Court Ruling"
• Newsom Signs Nation’s Most Sweeping Law To Phase Out Single-Use Plastics
• "Climate Change: 'Sand Battery' Could Solve Green Energy's Big Problem"
• "Kerry: Despite Setbacks At Home, US To Make Climate Goals"
• "The EPA Prepares For Its 'Counterpunch' After The Supreme Court Ruling"
• "EPA Sets Wildlife Protections On 3 Pesticides"
• UK: "Environment Agency Chief Hits Out At Greenwashing By Businesses"
• iden Administration Offers an Offshore Drilling Plan. Few Backers
• Shredded Trees, Dead Dolphins And Wildfires — How War Hurts Nature
• "Youngkin Appoints Former Trump EPA Head To New Deregulation Office"
• "Environmental Justice Advocates Slam Supreme Court Ruling"
• Newsom Signs Nation’s Most Sweeping Law To Phase Out Single-Use Plastics
• "Climate Change: 'Sand Battery' Could Solve Green Energy's Big Problem"
• "Kerry: Despite Setbacks At Home, US To Make Climate Goals"
• "The EPA Prepares For Its 'Counterpunch' After The Supreme Court Ruling"
• "EPA Sets Wildlife Protections On 3 Pesticides"
• UK: "Environment Agency Chief Hits Out At Greenwashing By Businesses"
• New Ozone Hole Has Been Discovered Over The Tropics – And It's Huge
• Heat Wave from the Midwest to the Southern US Prompts Heat Warnings
• "Scientists Find Ozone Hole in Tropics Much Bigger Than in Antarctica"
• "Judge Throws Out Trump-Era Rollbacks On Endangered Species"
• "Set It Back: Moving Levees to Benefit Rivers, Wildlife and Communities"
• Is A Uranium Mill In Utah Making Tribal Members Sick? Results In 2025
• Methane Much More Sensitive To Global Heating Than Thought: Study
• "Australia Flood, Boosted By Climate Change, Making History In Sydney"
• "Experts: US Court Fractures Decades Of Native American Law"
• "Rising Heat Drives Crippling Sandstorms Across The Middle East"
• "14 New Environmental Books to Kickstart Your Summer Reading List"
• AB 2146—California’s Pollinator Protection Act—passed in the California State Assembly
• Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture
• As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms
• Rubber used by leading European tire makers linked to forest loss in Africa: Report
• Traditional communities rally behind ecotourism to conserve their forests
• In Thailand’s deep south, a fight to stop quarrying in a global geopark
• Net-zero commitments must include more anti-deforestation policies, UN tells private sector
• ‘The volume of water is beyond control’: Q&A with flood expert M. Monirul Qader Mirza
• In Brazil’s semiarid region, agrivoltaics show promise for food, energy security
• Insects Probably Feel Pain, With Big Implications For How We Treat Them, Study Says
• "EU Lawmakers Back Gas, Nuclear Energy As Sustainable"
• "US Water Likely Contains More ‘Forever Chemicals’ Than EPA Tests Show"
• Full Of Holes, New International Agreement Targets Fishing Subsidies
• "Alaska Is on Track for a Record Fire Season"
• "Will a Nile Canal Project Dry Up Africa’s Largest Wetland?"
• "Oil Industry Sees Ongoing Leasing Pause in New Biden Gulf Plan"
• "Dutch Airline KLM Sued Over 'Greenwashing' Ads"
• ‘Every Year It Gets Worse’: On Frontline Of Climate Crisis In Bangladesh
• Photographer Joined Researchers Examining Climate Change In Antarctica
• North Wales’ Ancient Felled Pontfadog Oak Returns In 5 Cloned Saplings
• EPA Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants After Supreme Court Loss
• "Watchdog Slams Trump EPA Tampering With PFAS Rule"
• DOT Proposal Would Require States To Track Carbon Emissions From Driving
• "Higher Gas Prices Hurt Pockets, Make Small Dent In Emissions"
• Calif. Deepens Water Cuts To Cope With Drought, Hitting 1000s Of Farms
• "The Bitter Fight To Stop A 2,000-Mile Carbon Pipeline"
• BP Paid Rural Mexicans a “Pittance” for Carbon Credits
• "‘Carbon Capture’ Is No Fix. Big Oil’s Known for Decades"
• "Federal Purchases of Single-Use Plastics Targeted by Biden’s GSA"
• "Biologists’ Fears Confirmed On The Lower Colorado River"
• Study shows two million ancient and veteran trees in England, ten times more than previously recorded
• Carnivorous plants that trap prey underground is 1st of its kind discovered
• Rare orchid rediscovered in Vermont after 120 years
• Rhode Island sets fastest timeline of any US state to reach 100% renewable electricity