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| Greater Sage-Grouse / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Surface feeders like kittiwakes and fulmars are more likely to ingest plastic than seabirds that feed below the surface like murres and guillemots.
- The Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots in Germany runs captive-breeding programs for rare parrots like the Spix's Macaw, but there are questions about its ethics and results.
- The population of the endangered Chinese Crested Tern has doubled over the past decade, thanks to conservation efforts.
- The Trump administration denied threatened species protection for the bi-state Greater Sage-Grouse, a population that lives on the border of California and Nevada.
- Fishing boats that discard fish waste seem to change the way seabirds forage.
- Birding New Jersey: Patronymic Naming, ca. 1807
- Avian Hybrids: Crossbills show there is more to evolution than natural selection
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: From Eagles to Eastern-tailed Blues and Osprey to Oak Trees It’s All Connected and Worth Saving
- Arachnofiles: Arachnews: July 22, 2020. Your fortnightly roundup of arachnid…
- In Defense of Plants: The Carnivorous Dewy Pine
- On The Wing Photography: Adult Willow Flycatcher Close Up Photos
- Backyard and Beyond: Midge Monday
- Feathered Photography: Barn Swallow Repeatedly Attacking A Belted Kingfisher
- This week is National Moth Week, which continues through Sunday night. Here is how to participate and submit data.
- A new study concludes that most polar bears would starve if climate change continues at its current rate.
- Fisheries management councils are not doing enough to protect essential fish habitats, even in marine protected areas.
- This week, Congress passed the Great American Outdoors Act, which funds infrastructure repair in national parks and other public lands and guarantees that the Land and Water Conservation Fund will spend all its annual revenue. The downsides are that it maintains the tie between public lands and fossil fuel production and that it does little to protect wildlife affected by the increasing number of visitors on public lands.
- Climate scientists narrowed the potential range of global temperature rise to 2.6°C-3.9°C if current emissions rates continue. This rules out the most optimistic scenarios without mitigation.
- While transportation emissions fell because of the pandemic, methane emissions from agriculture and fossil fuel extraction hit a record high.
- Plastic waste reaching the ocean is expected to triple in the next two decades, and current regulations only remove a small amount of the volume.
- Climate change is already driving migration out of places that are becoming inhospitable, and the scale of migration will increase over the next century.
- Border wall construction is drying up Quitobaquito Springs, one of the few reliable oases in Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
- The Sierra Club is owning up to its involvement with white supremacy, including the racism of its founder, John Muir.
- National parks and other public lands have been overloaded with visitors, leaving trash and potentially spreading the coronavirus to remote communities.
- New Jersey's new environmental justice law will require permit applications for proposed industrial facilities to assess their cumulative effects on overburdened communities. The bill does not regulate existing sources of pollution.
