US National Wildlife Refuges are supposed to protect wildlife but many refuges themselves threatened, according to a survey of refuge managers and staff by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been called America's Serengeti -- one of the most important onshore denning habitats for America's struggling polar bears and home to caribou, snow fox and millions of migratory birds.
But that's not
he Interior Department limited its environmental review of oil industry plans for drilling in Arctic waters to veil plans for building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility and establishing year-round tanker traffic, according to documents released by
Exploitation of the Arctic's huge oil and gas wealth poses a growing danger to an icy wilderness that can recover only slowly from heavy oil spills, a report by the eight-nation Arctic Council said. "Oil spills can kill large numbers of animals by
Pressure to drill 1400 coal bed methane wells is threatening critical wildlife habitat in Wyoming's fragile Fortification Creek Area.The proposed development would result in the death or displacement of 80% of the area's isolated desert Elk herd.Help us >
Shell has been forced to halt plans to start drilling in the Arctic by a court challenge from indigenous Alaskans and green groups who claim that polar bears and whales would be put at serious risk.
The ban by the US court of appeal pending a hearing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A U.S. federal appeals court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to suspend oil exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska
Shell Oil has been ordered to stop drilling off the north coast of Alaska. A federal appeals court has ordered to company to stop drilling until a hearing in August.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling. The drilling began in