Amazon Japan, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, pulled all whale meat products (and possibly dolphin meat) from its site after a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society International highlighted the issue. Last Decem…
Amazon Japan, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, pulled all whale meat products (and possibly dolphin meat) from its site after a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society International highlighted the issue. Last Decem…
Bangladesh is creating two dolphin preserves, in a country where officials say wildlife conservation will have to be balanced with the demands of a growing human population.
Shell has proposed drilling up to six wells in the Chukchi Sea during the next two summer open-water seasons about 70 miles off the coast. The Obama administration says Shell has assured ready availability of a capping stack and an oil collection syste…
Researchers discover that the endangered western whale can make its way around the world rather than sticking to the coast of one continent.
Washing synthetic clothes—such as nylon, polyester, and acrylic—is polluting the oceans with billions of microplastics: plastics that measure less than one millimeter. It may sound innocuous, but research has shown that these microplastics …
Most cases reported by whistle-blowers involve illegal dumping of sludge and oily bilge water, the residue from ship engines.
Dutch and Italian teams must pump oil from 15 tanks that fueled the Costa Concordia cruise ship.
Drilling in the Arctic waters of the U.S. may become as contested an issue as the Keystone Pipeline XL in up-coming months. Scientists, congress members, and ordinary Americans have all come out in large numbers against the Obama Administration’s lease…
From an island off Maine to the Labrador Sea to the vicinity of Bermuda, the puffin really gets around after its nesting season concludes each year, researchers found.