10 Years Ago

Washington, D.C. (January 17, 2008) —Today the International Fund for Animal Welfare (www.ifaw.org) released On Thin Ice: The Precarious State of Arctic Marine Mammals in the United States Due to Global Warming, a comprehensive...

Fate of the whales remains in question Antarctica — Today the whaling fleet crossed the 60 degree latitude, leaving the whaling grounds behind - at least for this season. Officials in Tokyo have finally acknowledged...

Timber industry lawsuit seeks to halt protection for the Pacific fisher Sacramento, CA -- A coalition of conservation groups today intervened in defense of the Pacific fisher, a relative of the mink that depends...

Is toxic water allowed by Clean Water Act? San Francisco - In a move to prevent a multinational mining corporation from using the federal Clean Water Act to kill an Alaskan lake, Earthjustice attorneys argued...

23 November 2006 UN fisheries negotiations ran into early this morning as delegates worked to find a compromise. They were looking at text which would have offered immediate protection for vulnerable areas in the...

First Satellite Imagery Shows that Oil Spill Reaches Syrian Coastline. Access is Needed for Immediate Clean-up

2 August 2006, Nairobi/Athens — The oil spill that has already polluted over 80 kilometres of the Lebanese coastline...

(BOISE, Idaho) – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act and...

31 May 2006 Ottawa - In a meeting with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Canadian Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn agreed with the renowned ocean explorer's views on deep sea bottom trawling. "It does damage to the...