Conservation News ~ 8 October 2021

• "Crews Race To Limit Damage From Major California Oil Spill"
• "Manchin Clashes With Fellow Democrats Over Fossil-Fuel Demands"
• Ariz. Drought Ignites Tensions and Threatens Traditions Among the Hopi
• Pushed To The Edge, La. Tribe Wonder Where To Go After Ida
• Op-Ed: "Migration Will Soon Be The Biggest Climate Challenge Of Our Time"
• "An “Attack On American Cities” Is Freezing Climate Action In Its Tracks"
• "Great Wall of Lights: China's Sea Power On Darwin's Doorstep"
• "Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit"
• "Global Natural Gas Crunch Roils Consumers and Industry"
• For Bangladesh Climate Migrants, Pandemic Job Cuts Fuel 'Multiple Crises'
• Oil Industry Pushback Against Biden Climate Plans
• "Senate Confirms Biden’s Pick to Lead the Bureau of Land Management"
• Some Utilities Support, and Others Doubt, Dem Clean Electricity Proposal
• "UN Rules That Steven Donziger House Arrest Violates International Laws"
• BC Anti-Logging Protesters Win As Judge Denies Firm’s Injunction Bid
• "California Regulators Warn Of Dry Reservoirs, Restrictions"
• "Deportations Of Haitians Spark Concerns Over Environmental Refugees"
• Biden DOI Sets November Date For Gulf Lease Sale Canceled In February
• The High Price Of Living Near The Shore Is About To Go Through The Roof
• Cowabunga: "Scientists Drove A Robotic Surfboard Into Hurricane Sam"
• Oil spills plague Venezuelan coast, but cleanup efforts are lacking: Report
• Look beyond carbon credits to put a price on nature’s services, experts say
• How can philanthropy be more effective in environmental grant making? (commentary)
• For companies eyeing net-zero carbon emissions, ‘no clue how to get there’
• ‘Antithetical to science’: When deep-sea research meets mining interests
• Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction
• Researchers discover 12 new species of geckos in Western Ghats
• New species of swamp eel discovered in Mumbai
• A gendered approach to the illegal wildlife trade could engender an anti-trafficking revolution (commentary)
• For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later
• For Adams Cassinga, fighting wildlife trafficking in DRC is a life mission
• "Three Scientists Win Nobel for Work on Climate Breakthroughs"
• "14% Of World’s Coral Lost In Less Than A Decade, Study Shows"
• "Did Ship’s Anchor Cause California Oil Spill? Maybe"
• "Urban Heat Is Getting More Dangerous"
• "Oil Spills Plague Venezuelan Coast, But Cleanup Efforts Are Lacking"
• Rare Flower Found At Site Of Planned Lithium Mine May Be Endangered
• "Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Plans To Raze Old-Growth Forest"
• 5 Midwest Governors Agree To Create Network To Charge Electric Vehicles
• Month After Ida's Landfall, Louisianians Decry 'Third World' Conditions
• "How Do Thousands Prepare for a Climate Summit? With Difficulty."
• "Mapping California’s Oil Spill: Aging Pipes Line the Coast"
• "Germany's Center-Right Woos Greens for Possible Coalition"
• Burning Wood (Biomass) Is Promoted As A Carbon Neutral Fuel. But Is It?
• Historical Emissions Reveal Responsibility Of Big Polluting Nations
• "Bayer Wins First Roundup Trial as Jury Rejects Cancer Claim"
• "Fossil Fuel Firms Feel The Heat Over Push For Advertising Ban"
• "The Ship That Became a Bomb"
• "The Greenland Connection"
• "UN Weather Agency Says World Ill-Prepared For ‘Looming Water Crisis’"
• "Fire Brain": "What It's Like to Photograph the West's Biggest Wildfires"
• Florida lawmaker pushing to put manatees back on endangered species list         
• Three new species of freshwater goby fish found in Japan and the Philippines
• ‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park
• Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown
• Indonesia investigates alleged abuse of Sumatran tigers at city zoo
• Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful
• In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future
• A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in India
• Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for October 2021
• On islands that inspired theory of evolution, deforestation cuts uneven path
• Simple method for converting carbon dioxide into useful compounds
• Judge halts Southern Oregon logging project
• Research in climate modeling and complex systems wins Nobel Prize in Physics
• Extreme heat exposure in cities tripled in less than 35 years, study finds
• Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out
• Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention
• Brazil court upholds ban on missionaries trying to contact isolated Indigenous
• Are nature-based solutions the silver bullet for social & environmental crises?
• Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist
• In Half-Earth Project, a full-on bid to get countries to protect biodiversity
• "White House Outlines Plan To Overhaul Trump NEPA Rules"
• "A ‘Historic Event’: First Malaria Vaccine Approved by W.H.O."
• "DOJ Investigating Trump’s Car Emissions Probe"
• "City In Michigan Urged To Use Bottled Water Due To Lead Risk"
• "Fossil Fuel Industry Gets Subsidies Of $11M A Minute, IMF Finds"
• "Greenpeace Calls For End To Carbon Offsets"
• "Pandemic Complicates Preparations for COP26 Climate Summit"
• New Protections For California Aquifers Are Reshaping Central Valley
• "Canada Invokes 1977 Treaty With US As Dispute Over Pipeline Intensifies"
• "Google Maps Rolls Out ‘Eco-Friendly’ Routes"
• Two New Species of Venomous Snakes Discovered
• Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates?
• From Shanghai Knights to gecko life: The Jackie Chan gecko among 12 new Indian species
• In Bali, prominent official faces backlash over illegal pet gibbon
• Tracking white-bellied pangolins in Nigeria, the new global trafficking hub
• Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves
• Biden To Expand Bears Ears, Other National Monuments, Reversing Trump
• "6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change"
• Google Bans Ads With False Claims About Climate Change
• "Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov Win Nobel Peace Prize"
• "Moment Of Truth For Grid Expansion: Who Pays?"
• "Corps of Engineers Considers Nature-Based Flood Control"
• "As the Climate Bakes, Turkey Faces a Future Without Water"
• "Navajo Leaders Seek Hearing On Oil And Gas Drilling Dispute"
• "What Is COP26 and Why Is It Important?"
• "Climate Scientists Created a SWAT Team for Weather Disasters"
• With a Nearly Foot-Long Proboscis, This New Moth Species Holds Record for Longest Insect Tongue
• Crude oil spills from Galveston Bay, Tx refinery
• Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds
• The Nobel in Physics is awarded to three climate change scientists
• Giant, catastrophic oil spill in California ranks as one of the worst in decades
• Senate confirms Tracy Stone-Manning as Bureau of Land Management in party-line vote
• Northern California’s newest wolf pack welcomes first litter of 7 pups
• Lawyer Steven Donziger gets six-month sentence for contempt in Chevron battle
• Federal judge overturns sale of Colorado public lands for fracking
• USFWS formally reinstates the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• Crows are capable of conscious thought
• House passes important new protections for whales
• A $1 million fine didn’t stop US Steel from contaminating Lake Michigan
• WHO slashes recommended limits for air pollution, which kills 7 million people per year
• Judge recommends tribe be allowed to hunt gray whales off Washington State
• Vast area of Scottish Highlands to be rewilded in ambitious 30-year project