Democracy is the best tool we have to protect the environment, but it has to work properly. A healthy, functioning democracy means that decision-makers represent the people—not wealthy corporate interests.
Shark Week is already off to a sharktastic start, with lots of jawsome shark facts, images, stories and sharkisms swimming around cyberspace. This week is about getting to know these amazing creatures, sharing stories and inspiring people to take action to ensure our oceans are safer and healthier for the more than 400 magnificent species of ocean lions.
Turns out ExxonMobil, one of the world’s worst climate polluters, has known about the dangers of climate change since 1981. Yet the oil giant continues to be a major funder of climate change denial today.
Here in the US, the Congo Basin rainforest may seem like a world away. But as the second largest rainforest in the world, it is critically important for our climate right here, while also serving as the home to some of the most iconic wildlife that we all love
A new study by the Marine Science Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Greenpeace has concluded that the Pribilof canyon is the most significant location for deep sea corals and sponges along the entire eastern Bering Sea shelf. The study, which was published in Global Ecology and Conservation, also found that restricting bottom-contact fishing in Bering Sea canyons would not have significant negative impacts on the fishing industry.
In a big step forward for ocean conservation, U.S. fishery managers have elected to protect deep-sea corals and sponges and the underwater canyons where they thrive off the Atlantic coast.
Canada is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s remaining intact forests. But with only 8 percent of the country’s forest land permanently protected, logging poses a major threat to the people and wildlife that call the forest home.
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