No whales will be hunted in Iceland for the second year in a row, and one of the country’s two whaling companies is ceasing operations permanently. “I’m never going to hunt whales again, I’m stopping for good,” managing director of company IP-Utgerd Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson told AFP Sunday. IP-Utgerd specialized in hunting minke whales, which […]
As the climate warms, sea levels are rising, tropical storms are intensifying, and ocean waters are growing more acidic. These changes to the oceans have major impacts for people on land, from flooded coastal communities to losses for the fishing industry. So his group is lobbying for what some refer to as a Blue New […]
Arbor Day is America’s oldest environmental holiday, but how can you participate in the 148th celebration of this tree-planting festival when many Arbor Day events have been canceled to stop the spread of the new coronavirus? The Arbor Day Foundation has the answer: a social media campaign that lets you plant trees from the safety of […]
By Chiara Cecchini Although it is difficult today to divert attention from the dramatic situation we live in, it is even more important to get closer to our primary needs. Recently, we celebrated World Water Day, and the timing couldn’t have been more appropriate to give to all of us the chance to rethink priorities […]
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts Marine conservation group Sea Shepherd has made the difficult decision to suspend its campaign to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. “We haven’t had much choice because we’re dependent upon getting fuel from the Mexican government to do the patrols, and we weren’t able to […]
By Fino Menezes After unprecedented bushfires devastated communities and iconic flora and fauna across Australia, non-profit group Science for Wildlife releases 12 koalas back into their natural habitat in the Blue Mountains. First Koalas Released Back Into the Wild After Bushfire Horror Before this current global health crisis, Australia endured an unprecedented bushfire season that […]
The biodiversity loss caused by the climate crisis will be sudden and swift, and could begin before 2030. That’s the warning from a new study published in Nature Wednesday, which set out to determine how a variety of species and ecosystems would respond to rising temperatures over the course of the 21st century. “We found […]
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts The future for the world’s oceans often looks grim. Fisheries are set to collapse by 2048, according to one study, and 8 million tons of plastic pollute the ocean every year, causing considerable damage to delicate marine ecosystems. Yet a new study in Nature offers an alternative, and more optimistic view […]
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo is believed to be the first animal in the U.S. and the first tiger in the world to test positive for the new coronavirus. Nadia, a four-year-old Malayan tiger, was tested for the virus that causes COVID-19 after she developed a dry cough and began to lose her appetite, […]
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