Conservation News ~ 9 April 2021

• "Nine Ways Biden’s $2 Trillion Plan Will Tackle Climate Change"
• Biden Plan's $80 Billion For Rail Could Transform Passenger Service
• "Biden Seeks to Use Infrastructure Plan to Address Racial Inequities"
• Biden Jobs Plan Includes $10B For Civilian Climate Corps. Is It Enough?
• "Biden Plan Would Spend $16B To Clean Up Old Mines, Oil Wells"
• "That Spotty Wi-Fi? There’s $100 Billion to Fix It."
• "Supreme Court Hands Win to Georgia in State Water War"
• "Study: US Pesticide Use Falls But Harms Pollinators More"
• FEMA Unveils New Flood Insurance Calculation It Calls More Equitable
• Soil moisture drives year-to-year change in land carbon uptake
• Lawsuit Launched to Protect 10 Species Left in Regulatory Purgatory by Trump Administration
• US says grizzly bears should remain protected under Endangered Species Act
• Global Leaders Urged to Sanction Mexico to Save Critically Endangered Porpoises
• Grizzly bears stay on endangered species list, ag groups disappointed
• Group sues US over inaction to protect threatened species
• New flowering plant species named after Sharad Pawar - Argyreia sharadchandrajii
• Climate Change Has Already Cut Food Production Drastically
• "Emergency, Evacuations In Florida County Over Wastewater Pond Leak"
• "Test Flight for Sunlight-Blocking Research Is Canceled"
• Biden Plan To Rev Up Electric Car Market Complicated By Battery Supplies
• Greens Attack Australian Plan To Relax Rules For Chemicals, Pesticides
• Canada's Herring Face Collapse, Say First Nations And Activists
• "Energy Dept. Pushes To Reverse Trump-Era Rule On Efficiency Standards"
• "Two New Mexico Tribal Communities Suing EPA Over Clean Water Rule"
• Parks Maintenance Fund Will Go To 165 Projects, Support 19K Jobs This Year
• Big Meat, Dairy Companies Spend Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action
• Lawsuits pile up over endangered species decisions made by Trump administration
• Lawsuit launched against Chico development project, claims endangered species are threatened
• Fish and Wildlife Service sued for failing to act on endangered species proposals
• New deadly snake from Asia named after character from Chinese myth 'Legend of White Snake'
• Hawaiian stilt may be downlisted to threatened
• Even the Great Lakes’ deepest waters are now warming
• Droughts longer, rainfall more erratic over the last 50 years in most of the West
• Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta Nearly Caused 'Another Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe' in Gulf of Mexico
• Federal judge’s ruling ends Colorado’s plan to kill hundreds of mountain lions in Upper Arkansas River Basin
• Prescribed fires boost snake diversity in longleaf pine forests
• Scientists design 'smart' device to harvest daylight
• Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now
• “Activism gives you hope”: Q&A with Wallace Global Fund’s Ellen Dorsey
• Spiny new chameleon species described from Bale Mountains of Ethiopia
• Australia’s pivot to plantations may be too late for nearly extinct parrots
• Helping Papuans protect Indonesia’s last frontier: Q&A with Bustar Maitar
• Companies back moratorium on deep sea mining
• Endangered Species Protection Proposed for Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle
• Endangered Candy Darter Fish Wins 368 Stream Miles of Protected Critical Habitat in Virginia
• New firefly species turns up in Singapore swamp forest
• New Species of Bird Discovered in Brazil
• New wasp species discovered in Norway
• 'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever
• "EPA Chief Vows Tougher Tailpipe Rules by July, Unwinding Trump’s"
• "Left-Wing Party Opposed To Big Mining Project Wins Greenland Election"
• Gulf Coast Fish Farm Permit Will Get A Second Look Under Biden Admin
• Indictment Claims Kansas Man Tampered With Ellsworth County Water System
• "California Is On The Brink Of Drought – Again. Is It Ready?"
• A Top US Seller of Carbon Offsets Starts Investigating Its Own Projects
• Groups Petition EPA To Remove Ethane, Methane From Emissions Exempt List
• "U.S. Climate Envoy Kerry Says India Is "Getting Job Done" On Climate"
• "Alleged Mastermind Of Honduran Activist’s Murder On Trial"
• "Deb Haaland's Visit Home: Grandparents’ Prayers"
• A mid-Atlantic mussel finally secures critical habitat
• Scientists discover two new species of ancient, burrowing mammal ancestors
• Genome sequencing reveals a new species of bumblebee
• New fish species named in honor of UGA ecologists
• Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil
• Gray wolf detected in SLO County. It may be first Central Coast sighting in nearly 200 years
• Republicans Mobilize For Showdown To Block Biden Infrastructure Plan
• Southwest Braces For Water Cutbacks As Drought Deepens Along The Colorado
• "In Europe, a Backlash Is Growing Over Incinerating Garbage"
• "Law Students Denounce Chevron’s Law Firm Over Steven Donziger Case"
• "‘This Is Environmental Racism’"
• Marine Species Increasingly Can’t Live At Equator Due To Global Heating
• Banks Pledge Climate Fight, But Their Boards Have Deep Fossil-Fuel Ties
• "Biden Tax Plan Targets Fossil Fuel Subsidies Worth $35 Billion"
• "Biden Nominates Interior Deputy As Department's Top Lawyer"
• "‘Opening The Lid’ On Toilet Innovation: Q&A With Author Chelsea Wald"
• Monterey Bay sea otters maintain kelp supply
• Beautiful New Species of Parasitic Cuckoo Wasp Discovered in Norway
• Cryptic New Species of Bumblebee Discovered in Rocky Mountains
• Judge halts Tejon Ranch Centennial Development
• Willife Trader with SC connection arrested after deadly snakes sent to Florida
• Saudi Arabia’s mission to save the Arabian Leopard
• Greenland’s leftwing anti-mine party wins snap election
• Environmental group sues US for leaving 10 species in ‘regulatory purgatory’
• Condors to return to Pacific Northwest
• Carbon labeling of food shifts people’s behavior – even among those actively trying to avoid information
• Gray wolf detected in SLO County – the first sighting in 200 years
• Destruction of world’s forests increased sharply in 2020
• Rising Sika deer population linked to bovine tuberculosis infections
• Bitcoin mining will soon pump out more carbon than Czech Republic
• Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil
• Threatened Sangai deer’s habitat likely to shrink due to climate change
• Prince William says COVID vaccine rollout proves that humanity can take on climate change
• New $30 million vegan factory to bring Oatly to Asia
• Carbon emissions from England’s roads plan 100 times greater than government claims
• Ghanian authorities investigate after 60 dead dolphins appear
• Secretary Haaland creates new missing and murdered unit to pursue justice for missing or murdered American Indians
• New Mexico Governor signs law banning traps, snares, and poisons
• Maha forests on fire in Jan-Mar, heavy loss of wildlife habitat
• Evidence of Antarctic glacier’s tipping point confirmed for first time
• Urgent letter sent from IUCN species survival commission to Mexico requesting increased Vaquita efforts
• Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it
• An icebreaker playing classical music saved 2,000 Beluga whales from certain death in 1985
• Florida Panther cubs found dead
• France to ban use of Wild Animals in circuses and marine parks
• In Bolivian Andes, new protected area offers a breath of fresh air
• Diamond battery powered by nuclear waste runs for 28,000 years
• US agency illegally paid for Colorado predator hunt
• Biden proposes big investments in water
• Interior Department to invest $1.6 billion for public land upkeep
• New recovery plans will help save southeast’s critically imperiled salamanders
• 2 Hawaiian Monk Seals released to wild after 2 months at Ke Kai Ola
• Mummified parrots reveal ‘sophisticated’ trade in ancient South American Desert
• Deforestation rises in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park as cattle invade
• Farmed fish suffer pain and stress
• Loading soil with biochar allows farmers to cut way back on irrigation
• Evidence of Antarctic’s glacier’s tipping point confirmed for first time
• First report of horizontal gene transfer between plant and animal
• Asteroid that killed the dinosaur created the Amazon Rain Forest
• US fossil fuel companies took billions in tax breaks and then laid off thousands