Environment

With many plant and animal species ‘hanging on by a thread,’ UN urges action to tackle wildlife crime

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Wildlife.

Tuna industry must urgently reform, says Greenpeace

Greenpeace today called on Thai Union and the fishing industry, at the 14th Infofish World Tuna Trade and Conference, to step up and rein in destructive and illegal fishing practises. Thai Union, the world’s largest producer of canned tuna, is embroiled in human rights and environmental abuse scandals, and was again the target of global protests over the weekend.

U.S. Santa Cruz Biotechnology Agrees to $3.5M Fine, License Revocation

Agreement represents an unprecedented settlement under the Animal Welfare Act

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On International Day, UN highlights biodiversity's role in underpinning development

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Fishing boats, Mexico.

Putting fish on the ‘highway’ to success

More than 20,000km of England’s rivers have been opened up to improve fish migration over the last 4 years – the equivalent distance of London to Rio and back – the Environment Agency reveals on World Fish Migration Day (21st May).

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Salmon leaping

Study Helps Explain Sea Ice Differences at Earth's Poles

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Location of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current front (white contour), with -1 degree Celsius sea surface temperature lines (black contours) on Sept. 22 each year from 2002-2009, plotted against a chart of the depth of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. The white cross is Bouvet Island.

Northwest Tribes Vow To Continue Opposition to Canadian Pipeline

U.S. Tribes join Canadian First Nations in their disappointment over Canada’s regulatory approval of the TransMountain pipeline

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Members of the Tulalip Tribe sing along the banks of the Fraser River in Chilliwack, British Columbia, as part of a ceremony to honor the waters and marine life so integral to the Coast Salish way of life.

Latino Advocates Protect Wildlife Refuge In Puerto Rico

Latino and Environmental Coalition refocus Congress on an actual Puerto Rican recovery

The House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee unveiled the latest draft of the PROMESA Act which no longer jeopardizes thousands of acres of the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge.

Health, Environmental, Business Leaders To EPA: Improve National Parks' Air Quality

Broad coalition to convene, speak out in support of proposed Regional Haze Rule revisions

A broad coalition of advocates and concerned citizen groups was on Thursday travel to Washington, D.C., to voice their opinions of proposed changes to the Regional Haze Rule, a program of the Clean Air Act (CAA). At a public hearing hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), these individuals and organizations will be supporting provisions to strengthen the existing rule and calling out areas that weaken or delay clean air protections for America’s most iconic national parks and wilderness areas and the people who visit and depend on them.

Earth’s health declining ‘faster than thought’ but action by governments can reverse trend – UN

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Burnt and degraded forest within Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia.