Topic: Brendan Cummings

Sanctions Sought Against Canada Over Unsustainable Polar Bear Hunting That Violates International Treaty

Environmental News Network - 22 days ago
WASHINGTON- The Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S. conservation group, filed a formal request Monday with the U.S. Department of the Interior...

APNewsBreak: Feds propose listing for seals

AP News - 440 days ago
APNewsBreak: Feds proposes threatened species listing for ringed, bearded sealsThe federal government on Friday proposed listing two seals that depend on sea ice as threatened species because of the projected loss of ice from climate warming.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

U.S. maps protected Alaska habitat for polar bears

Reuters Environmental Online Report - 847 days ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A vast swath of icy sea, barrier islands and coastal land on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope will be granted special protection because of its importance to the threatened polar bear, under a proposal released Thursday by the U ...

Shell gets conditional OK for Beaufort drilling

AP News - 849 days ago
Fed agency conditionally approves Shell exploratory drilling in Beaufort Sea off AlaskaA federal agency announced approval Monday of a plan by Shell Offshore, Inc.'s to drill exploratory wells next year on two leases in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north ...

Suit seeks ban on oil companies disturbing wildlife

Environmental News Network - 1317 days ago
Two environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn new federal regulations that grants permission to oil companies working in the Chukchi Sea to disturb the polar bears and walrus that live there. Tuesday's lawsuit, filed by the Center ...

States petitioned on ocean acidification

AP News - 1645 days ago
Group Asks States to List Atlantic, Pacific Oceans As Impaired Waterways Due to AcidificationA conservation organization has requested that Alaska and six other states add bodies of water to their list of impaired waterways: the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.The Center for ...

U.S. to study protection for Alaska loon

AP News - 1723 days ago
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Review Rare Alaska Loon for ProtectionsA petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and ...