"5 Things to Watch at This Month’s Big Wildlife Trade Treaty Meeting"
"New wildlife trade rules being discussed at CITES could affect 550 species, including elephants, rhinos and giraffes."
Source: The Revelator, 08/19/2019
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Dem AGs Slam EPA Plan To Limit Review Of Pesticide Impacts On Species
"Eleven state attorneys general are pushing back against an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal they say would weaken the process for determining whether pesticides are harmful to endangered species."
Source: The Hill, 08/19/2019
In Iowa, Candidates Talk About Farming's Climate Change Connections
"As the Democratic candidates for president made their requisite swing through the Iowa State Fair this week, they stumped near hay bales and posted about it on Twitter. They also brought an unprecedented focus on agriculture's connections with climate change—an issue that's getting more traction among rural Midwestern voters and farmers in the wake of massive flooding and heat waves."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/19/2019
"Bristol Bay: EPA Deleted Scientists' Concerns About Pebble Analysis"
"EPA scientists wanted their agency to ask for a new environmental review of the proposed Pebble mine project but were overridden by political staffers, according to several sources and a key document obtained by E&E News."
Source: Greenwire, 08/19/2019
Photos Reveal the Pollination Secrets of Florida’s Most Elusive Flower
"The ghost orchid is one of the rarest and most mysterious flowers in North America. Until recently, scientists could only guess at how the 2,000 or so plants that cling to the trees in Florida’s remote old-growth swamp forests are pollinated—no one had ever photographed the event before."
Source: Audubon magazine, 08/16/2019
"Fracking Boom Tied To Methane Spike In Earth’s Atmosphere"
"Scientists have measured big increases in the amount of methane, the powerful global warming gas, entering the atmosphere over the last decade. Cows or wetlands have been fingered as possible sources, but new research points to methane emissions from fossil fuel production—mainly from shale gas operations in the United States and Canada—as the culprit."
Source: National Geographic, 08/16/2019
"NASA Scientists Fly Over Greenland To Track Melting Ice"
"ABOARD A NASA RESEARCH PLANE OVER GREENLAND — The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chunks of bleached-white ice, some the size of battleships, some as tall as 15-story buildings."
Source: AP, 08/16/2019
"Science: Earth Stopped Getting Greener 20 Years Ago"
"The world is gradually becoming less green, scientists have found. Plant growth is declining all over the planet, and new research links the phenomenon to decreasing moisture in the air — a consequence of climate change."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/16/2019
"Pipelines: Feds Warn Of Unsafe Construction On Atlantic Coast Project"
"Federal regulators have found unsafe construction practices at work sites on the Atlantic Coast pipeline, spelling more trouble for a project that's already facing setbacks in court."
Source: EnergyWire, 08/16/2019
Enviros Appeal EPA Policy Barring Scientists From Advisory Panels
"Environmental groups on Thursday appealed a court decision in their attempt to end the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) policy of excluding certain scientists from serving on its advisory boards."
Source: The Hill, 08/16/2019
