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“WWF thoughts are with the families of those tragically killed in the Sanchi oil tanker collision.

“We now have an environmental disaster unfolding before our eyes. The stricken tanker is leaking its cargo of condensate, which is toxic to marine mammals, fish, sea turtles and seabirds. WWF calls for the urgent mobilisation of all available containment equipment to remove the toxic slick and reduce the threat it poses to marine life.”

An Iranian oil tanker that had been burning and listing off the coast of China for more than a week, exploded into a mass of flames Sunday and sank.

Representing the interests of the millions of people who use, visit, study and rely on the Atchafalaya Great River Swamp, on January 11, several groups asked a Louisiana federal district court to vacate a recent decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) that would allow the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline to be constructed through the Atchafalaya Basin, one of the nation’s ecological crown jewels, and through hundreds of Louisiana’s streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands and bayous.

On January 10, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an administrative order to Wolverine World Wide Inc. to conduct further assessment and potential cleanup work at its former tannery and at the House Street landfill in Rockford, Mich. The order requires additional investigation and characterization of soil, groundwater and river sediment contaminated with hazardous substances including arsenic, chromium, mercury and ammonia.

Green turtle

A group of three widely used agricultural pesticides jeopardizes the survival of endangered salmon, according to a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) biological opinion unveiled this week.

On January 9, the Port of Vancouver Commission voted unanimously to end the Tesoro Savage oil train terminal proposal in Vancouver, Washington. Port of Vancouver Commissioner President Eric LaBrant issued the motion to exercise a clause which cancels the lease for the terminal effective March 31, 2018.

In response to data released from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declaring 2017 as the 3rd warmest year ever in the US, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following statement.

Tribal and conservation interests asked a federal judge to invalidate a government decision to strip the Yellowstone region’s grizzly bears of longstanding endangered species protections, on January 8.

Ambergris caye, Belize, Central America