Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
This month’s Men’s Journal has a nice profile by Jacques Leslie of Richard Nelson, a naturalist and radio personality, and a recent trip Nelson took to Kaktovik, Alaska, to narrate a monologue about the polar bear. Seeing an animal...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
In another disappointing turn of events, today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar effectively endorsed the Bush Administration's policy of excluding the effects of global warming pollution on polar bears from consideration under the Endangered Species Act. The Secretary decided...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently made an interesting, and little noted, move that speaks volumes about this Administration's attitude towards climate change legislation. Last year the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to list the ribbon seal, which like...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Over at Planet Gore, the gremlins are hard at work trying to make the case that yesterday’s announcement that summer Arctic sea ice minimums are only the second lowest on record is actually a good thing. According to Edward John...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Greg Pollowitz has posted a reply to my critique of his post on the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the Republic of Congo. In his original post, Pollowitz seemed to argue that this discovery should undermine our confidence...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The dramatic signs of global warming's impact on the Arctic are everywhere these days, but an event last fall in a small Canadian town 100 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle has to rate as one of the most...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 Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I normally don't respond to every argument by folks who oppose protecting the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act because, well, it's just not worth the bother. But this bit of idiocy in the Miami Herald just cries out...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today the protection of polar bears under the U.S. Endangered Species Act suffered yet another delay at the hands of the Bush Administration. The Administration--which formally proposed adding the polar bears to the List of Threatened and Endangered Species in...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has an op-ed in today's New York Times that's pretty breathtaking (and I mean that in a Seinfeld kinda way). I won't go into a line-by-line rebuttal of her piece, but I just can't let...continued→
