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Help Stop Big Oil’s Arctic Assault
Speak up today for the future of ringed seals and other cherished Arctic wildlife. Remember the days when Big Tobacco insisted their product was safe? For a long time, people bought in: doctors lit up, mothers smoked around their kids… Read more >
Walruses Hauling Out to Alaska Shoreline
By Larry J. Schweiger Thousands of walruses, many of them mothers and calves, have left the shrinking and thinning Chukchi Sea ice for the Alaska shoreline. The packed beaches can lead to tramplings and deaths for the walruses. Read more >
Bush Admin Gives Big Oil “Blank Check to Harass the Polar Bear”
From the Associated Press: Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural… Read more >
Polar Bear “Threatened” Listing Comes with Strings Attached
Today the Department of the Interior announced it would list the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, the decision came with administrative guidance — better known as strings attached. Despite its own admission… Read more >
