News links for January 28 and January 29

And now time for another news and info thread, this time not entirely focused on Albemarle and Charlottesville. The formatting for

• First, the United Kingdom has held its first Climate Assembly. Note in the image how participants were chosen. Story in the @guardian (bit.ly/2GtVky5)

• Wolves were returned to Yellowstone National Park 25 years ago, which has lead to a restoration of many species. This @guardian article explains how that happened and what is at stake. Note the annual figure generated by wolf tourism! (bit.ly/2vn1bmq)
• Rewilding the warming Arctic could help with carbon sequestration, but some are suggesting the scale could be at the level of "megafaunal ecosystem engineering." Here's a story from @physorg_com I got from a Sierra Club list I am on (bit.ly/2t3NUOU)
• As an aside, rewilding on a global scale is a major plot point of the novel 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, one of my favorite authors. I want to start a KSR book club. (bit.ly/36ERFZ7) Back to the thread.
• Tropical forests are not storing as much CO2 as before, but boreal forests are. More in this @CarbonBrief article. (bit.ly/30YSvyw)
• Many point to overpopulation as a reason for the world's climate issues, but @AlberroHeather warns against that approach in this piece on The Conservation (bit.ly/2RAeB7k)The Census is underway this year, but the Weldon Cooper estimates for July 2019 are out. @Knott_Katherine has this story in today's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2RVyVPE)
• Our data-driven lives in the 21st century require data centers, and centers require a lot of power. The @ChesBayJournal has this story, which includes comments from my @piedmontenviron colleagues (bit.ly/2GsnVnx)
• James Monroe owned hundreds of people as slaves, like many other early presidents. Now, Highland is involving their descendants as a way to rewrite the history. @wusa9 has this story (bit.ly/37BD1D9)
• Childcare will be provided to any parent who wants to attend the Albemarle County school board's meeting on Thursday night. Details in the @DailyProgress (bit.ly/36B25ZF)
• Virginia Tech is going to open an indoor farming facility at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville. Story on @GoDanRiver (bit.ly/2t7K7Aa)
• A 2019 survey of U.S. Mayors found has found that many believe their communities are too auto-centered. @routefifty has this story (bit.ly/37CSxyl)
• The Charlottesville School Board's budget request for FY21 is $2 million higher than officials in Charlottesville City Hall were expecting. Story from @Knott_Katherine in the @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2GApDmQ)
• Passenger flights through the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport doubled in the last decade, and the airport is looking at ways to improve the terminal as a result. @NBC29 has this story from a public meeting last week (bit.ly/2GB6hxL)
• There's a mysterious artists putting up pictures of a Hot Dog over Charlottesville @erinaroo caught up with this person for this article in @cville_weekly (bit.ly/2RT88mM)
• How easy it to remove trees in urban Atlanta for development projects? @mariasaporta has this article, which includes a mention of John Dewberry (bit.ly/2RGDgY5)
• Wild Wolf has closed its location in Charlottesville. I never got around to going there.How many places have come and gone from that space? (bit.ly/2uLisFy)
  
• New Kent County has begun a strategic planning process and many are lamenting the potential loss of rural character. Here's a Daily Press story on the process (bit.ly/313PT2c)
• Commercial poultry operations in eastern Virginia can lead to excessive nitrogen getting into the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways. Here's another @Daily_Press story (bit.ly/2RET3q0)