Overfishing Causes Pacific Bluefin Tuna Numbers to Drop 96%

Conservationists also warned that the vast majority caught were juveniles and had never reproduced

The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96 percent, according to research published…
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by: The Guardian UK – January 10, 2013

On the 12th Day of Christmas ... Your Gift Will Just be Junk

Every year we splurge on pointless, planet-trashing products, most of which are not wanted. Why not just bake them a cake?

There's nothing they need, nothing they don't own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly-button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub-holder; a "hilarious" inflatable Zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry…
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by: The Guardian UK – December 14, 2012

Yellowstone’s Popular Alpha Female Wolf Shot Dead by Hunters Outside Park

Known only as 832F, wolf was a favorite among visitors and researchers trying to understand the species' movements

A wolf beloved by visitors and tracked by scientists at Yellowstone national park has been shot dead by hunters, reigniting debate over the targeting of the animal. Photo by William Campbell/USFWSOver the last few weeks, eight wolves that had been fitted with…
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by: The Guardian UK – December 10, 2012

Climate Change is Happening Now — a Carbon Price Must Follow

The extreme weather events of 2012 are what we have been warning of for 25 years, but the answer is plain to see

Will our short attention span be the end of us? Just a month after the second "storm of a century" in two years, the media moves on to the latest scandal with barely a retrospective glance at the implications of the extreme climate anomalies we…
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by: The Guardian UK – November 29, 2012

Climate Change Adaptation Cash for Poor Countries Fails to Materialize

As the COP18 Doha climate talks begin, Oxfam and IIED warn that green climate fund risks being left 'as an empty shell'

Wealthy countries have not only failed to provide cash to help poor people adapt to climate change, but much of what they have agreed to give so far has come out of existing aid budgets or in the form of loans that…
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by: The Guardian UK – November 26, 2012

Norway’s Plan to Kill Wolves Explodes Myth of Environmental Virtue

A proposed cull is indicative of the brutal treatment predators receive in Scandinavian countries

One of the biggest political shocks of the past decade has been the transformation of Canada. Under the influence of the tar barons of Alberta, it has mutated from a country dominated by liberal, pacific, outward-looking values to a thuggish petro-state, ripping…
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by: The Guardian UK – November 20, 2012

An Open Letter to Obama from the World’s Poorest Countries

"As president you have helped those who cause climate change more than those affected most by it. Helping the world's poorest adapt is now a matter of urgency, and it can be your great legacy"

Dear President Obama, As the lead negotiator for the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the United Nations climate change negotiations, I congratulate you on your re-election. I also want to express my admiration for your response to superstorm Sandy: without…
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by: The Guardian UK – November 9, 2012

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