Conservation News ~ November 23 2018

• Tests reveal more weed killer than some vitamins in kids’ cereals: https://www.ewg.org/release/tests-reveal-more-weed-killer-some-vitamins-kids-cereals
• House of Representatives voted on Gray Wolf delisting: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/15/house-of-representatives-to-vote-on-gray-wolf-deli/
• Large hydropower dams not sustainable: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46098118
• NY Co-Op solar project will be owned by the community members it benefits: https://www.fastcompany.com/90264043/this-co-op-solar-project-will-be-owned-by-the-community-members-it-benefits
• Orangutans are the only great apes – besides humans – to talk about the past: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/orangutans-are-only-great-apes-besides-humans-talk-about-past
• Oregon State study: Carnivores’ return helps Yellowstone park streams: https://www.apnews.com/9d1e2c3589fc4287a1ad12afbf00ff1c
• EU moves to protect big beasts: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46153727
• Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/sad-surprise-amazon-fish-contaminated-by-plastic-particles
• Conservation areas help birdlife adapt to climate change: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181112131615.htm
• Google searches reveal public interest in conservation is rising: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/google-searches-reveal-public-interest-in-conservation-is-rising/
• Brazil could lose Nepal-size area of rainforest due to policy revision: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/brazil-could-lose-nepal-size-area-of-rainforest-due-to-policy-revision/
• RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/rspo-adopts-total-ban-on-deforestation-under-sweeping-new-standards/
• Peru shares its fisheries surveillance data with the world: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/peru-shares-its-fisheries-surveillance-data-with-the-world/
• Activists urge end to South Korean funding of Indonesian coal plants: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/activists-urge-end-to-south-korean-funding-of-indonesia-coal-plants/
• Billion-dollar US energy firm opposes US White House plan to roll back mercury rules: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/15/energy-company-takes-stance-against-trump-effort-to-rollback-mercury-rule
• Squid and Gill nets cleared from artificial reef: https://www.oceandefenders.org/news-and-media/squid-and-gill-nets-cleared-from-artificial-reef.html?fbclid=IwAR3B2BQslnlV5SnIVInSEYOzW1aL_PlrB2pQ4HdwwERRfGcONjl9qyyIA-k
• US starts process to open Arctic to offshore drilling, despite federal lawsuit: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15112018/arctic-offshore-drilling-alaska-beaufort-sea-trump-order-federal-lawsuit-obama-oil-spill-concerns
• A new DNA study reveals a previously unidentified North American ‘polar wolf’: https://www.arctictoday.com/new-dna-study-reveals-previously-unidentified-north-american-polar-wolf/
• Interior Department sued for secrecy about endangered species: https://www.missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2018/11/interior-endangered-species/
• California newts shut down road in Berkeley’s Tilden Regional Park: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/08/california-newts-shut-down-road-in-berkeleys-tilden-regional-park/
• Arizona man sentenced in killing of Mexican Gray Wolf: https://kvoa.com/news/2018/11/16/arizona-man-sentenced-in-killing-of-mexican-gray-wolf/
• Vessel spills 250,000 litres of crude oil off Newfoundland: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/newfoundland-tanks-oil-spill-husky-1.4909859
• Two big new all-electric ferries are coming to Canada: https://electrek.co/2018/11/07/all-electric-ferries-canada/
• Scientists create sustainable vegan protein from water, electricity, and CO2: https://www.livekindly.co/finnish-solar-foods-sustainable-vegan-protein-water-electricity-co2/
• Plant-based protein company Beyond Meat files for IPO: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/17/business/beyond-meat-ipo/index.html
• PT Barnum’s hometown bans wild animals in circuses: https://www.care2.com/causes/the-greatest-showman-home-city-bans-wild-animals-in-circuses.html
• It’s now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/its-now-cheaper-to-build-a-new-wind-farm-than-to-keep-a-coal-plant-running/
• Northern California now has the worst air quality in the world, thanks to wildfire smoke: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/16/18098461/aqi-san-francisco-worst-air-quality-world-epa
• Manatees in peril as toxic red tide tests Florida’s resources for rescued animals: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/19/severity-of-toxic-red-tide-tests-floridas-resources-for-rescued-manatees
• Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-rare-diverse-giant-viruses-unexpectedly.html
• Funding boost for Stockholm Resilience Centre: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2018-11-20-funding-boost-for-centre-researchers.html
• Dead whale had 1,000 pieces of plastic in stomach: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/20/indonesia-dead-whale-had-1000-pieces-of-plastic-in-stomach
• Climate change altering direction of water currents: http://www.wshu.org/post/yale-study-climate-change-altering-direction-water-currents
• Colorado adopts California’s stricter emissions standards: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-adopts-californias-stricter-emissions-standards-bucking-trump-administration
• Surge in marine refuges brings world close to protected areas goal: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/19/marine-reserves-size-protected-wildlife-five-times-bigger-usa
• Oregon aquarium plans a $4.75 million rehabilitation facility for sick or stranded sea animals: http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/oregon-aquarium-plans-475-million-rehabilitation-facility-sick-or-stranded-sea-animals
• Closing nuclear plants risk rise in greenhouse gas emissions: https://grist.org/article/closing-nuclear-plants-risks-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-report-warns/
• Mosquito repellant kills salamander larvae: http://wildlife.org/mosquito-repellent-kills-salamander-larvae/
• Dead fish to power cruise ships: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/19/dead-fish-to-power-cruise-ships-norwegian-biogas
• Grizzly, black, and polar bears found together for the first time: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/19/dead-fish-to-power-cruise-ships-norwegian-biogas
• VA Secretary says that experiments on dogs will continue: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/experiments-on-dogs-will-continue--va-secretary-says-65075
• California wildfire smoke spreads to New York: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/california-fires-smoke-new-york-east-coast-arrival
• Coast Guard orders cleanup of massive 14-year oil spill in Gulf of Mexico: https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/20/coast-guard-orders-cleanup-massive-year-oil-spill-gulf-mexico/
• Oregon, Washington state parks will be free for Black Friday: https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/11/f3f54d540b3034/oregon-washington-state-parks.html
• Rock icon Roger Waters denounces Chevron in Ecuador: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/roger-waters-denounces-chevron-in-ecuador/
• US could cut emissions more than one-fifth through ‘natural climate solutions’ like reforestation: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/us-could-cut-emissions-more-than-one-fifth-through-natural-climate-solutions-like-reforestation/
• Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/progress-on-jaguar-conservation-in-suriname/
• Vegan actor James Cromwell takes dead piglet inside Utah Capitol building in protest: https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/vegan-james-cromwell-dead-piglet-utah-capitol-building-protest
• Population of rare Stone’s sheep smaller than previously thought: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181115115334.htm
• New whale sounds recorded in Niwa-led Cook Strait study: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/108604618/new-whale-sounds-recorded-in-niwaled-cook-strait-study
• Amazon indigenous groups porpose Mexico-sized ‘corridor of life’: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/21/amazon-indigenous-groups-propose-mexico-sized-corridor-of-life
• Vanuatu says it may sure fossil fuel companies and other countries over climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/vanuatu-says-it-may-sue-fossil-fuel-companies-and-other-countries-over-climate-change
• Hungary wants end to coal power by 2030: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/11/20/hungary-wants-end-coal-power-2030/
• Interior Secretary blames ‘radical environmentalists’ for wildfires: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/interior-secretary-zinke-blames-radical-environmentalists-contributing-wildfires-n938671
• Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain: https://www.popsci.com/termites-brazil-landfill-mounds
• Canada’s Bill S-203, protecting cetaceans, has passed: https://www.animalalliance.ca/bill-s-203-ending-cetaceans-captivity/
• World’s saddest polar bear dies after spending 21 years in concrete pit: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/polar-bear-tongki-south-korea-dies
• Oregon receives authorization to remove California Sea Lions preying on imperiled fish: https://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/stories/2018/14_11142018_predatory_willamette.html
• Scientists find remains of huge ancient herbivore: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-huge-ancient-herbivore.html
• Whales are perpetually stressed: https://www.google.com/search?q=Whales+are+perpetually+stressed%3A&oq=Whales+are+perpetually+stressed%3A&aqs=chrome..69i57.294j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
• Florida already reached last year’s record manatee deaths by boats: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-already-reached-last-years-record-manatee-deaths-by-boats
• 2 endangered black rhinos found dead in Mara: https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/scienceandhealth/3-endangered-black-rhinos-found-dead-in-Mara/3073694-4862440-p0cgm1z/index.html
• Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in Africa: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/uou-han112018.php
• South Korea closes largest dog meat slaughterhouse: http://www.hsi.org/news/press_releases/2018/11/sk-slaughterhouse-shutdown-112218.html
• Russia bans its whale jails after international outcry: http://expressdigest.com/russia-bans-its-whale-jails-after-international-outcry/