Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday, Alaska announced its intention to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service over the agency's decision to protect Cook Inlet beluga whales under the Endangered Species Act. You can read a copy of the State's notice of intent to...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Winter v. NRDC, a case concerning the devastating environmental effects that the use of high-intensity active sonar can have on marine life, particularly small, deep-diving, whales. The Court could consider...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
For years, scientists have been concerned about the substantial increase of mercury concentrations in Arctic marine mammals such as polar bears, beluga whales, and seals. In some places in Canada, for example, levels of mercury in the tissue of...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today's AP featured a rather extraordinary claim by the United States Navy. In a story about the particular vulnerability "beaked" whales (a kind of small toothed whale that encompasses about twenty different species) to naval sonar, the commander of the U.S. Pacific...continued→
