The largest dam removal in U.S. history entered a critical phase this week, with the lowering of dammed reservoirs on the Klamath River.
On Thursday (Jan 11), the gate on a 16-foot-wide bypass tunnel at the base of Iron Gate dam, the lowest of those slated to be removed, was opened from a crack to 36 inches.
From NPR
Biodiversity data collection is growing exponentially. The increase is driven in part by international commitments to conservation, market investments and technological advances, and the growing urgency of human impacts including climate change. Nations increasingly rely on biodiversity data in order to strategically meet global conservation targets for the coming decades. But not all data is collected equally.
From Phys.Org
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-social-equity-biodiversity-interdisciplinary-policy.html
Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents.
From The Guardian
Efforts to put an economic value on nature are meant to garner support for saving it. But is that the wisest approach?
By Louise Fabiani Writing in Undark
Hawaii hardest hit by loss of eight birds, with an Ohio catfish, a Pacific fruit bat and eight freshwater mussels also disappearing
From The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/us-animals-birds-extinct-this-year
A lot has changed in the world since the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted 50 years ago in December 1973.
Two researchers at The Ohio State University were among a group of experts invited by the journal Science to discuss how the ESA has evolved and what its future might hold.
From Environmental News Network
https://www.enn.com/articles/73865-how-technology-and-economics-can-help-save-endangered-species
n 2023, the U.S. experienced a record 25 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters — three more than the previous record, set in 2020.
From Environmental News Network:
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have studied and documented the historical transformation of the urban wetlands and ponds in the Helsinki region from the 19th century to the present.
From: Phys.Org
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-threatened-urban-wetlands-play-crucial.html
The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a “Green Nobel” prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental champions of the Amazon rainforest.
From Reuters
Summit president hails ‘historic package to accelerate climate action’ but critics decry ‘litany of loopholes’ in final text
From The Guardian