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People across the world are kicking off festivities in the name of Earth Day. This international holiday, described as "halfway between a street party and a guilt trip" by the Washington Post, began 40 years ago when a group of young activists arranged a national protest. The event was categorized b...
The United States formally introduced a plan crafted in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida last March during a meeting of the International Whaling Convention. The plan would allow whaling nations to do so legally within the IWC. Currently, Norway and Iceland whale in objection to the moratorium placed b...
CORVALLIS, Oregon, April 15, 2010 (ENS) - An illegal trade in whalemeat, linking whales killed in Japan's controversial scientific whaling program to sushi restaurants in Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea, has been uncovered by an international team of scientists, documentary filmmakers...
ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 8, 2010 (ENS) - Millions of sea turtles are thought to have died over the past 20 years because they were caught accidentally in fishing nets or snagged on longlines, according to the first ever global study of unintended capture on marine turtle populations.
Unintended ca...
ITHACA, New York, April 6, 2010 (ENS) - Red cardinals, blue jays, black crows and robins were among the 10 most sighted birds in this year's Great Backyard Bird Count, but organizers said one of the most dramatic results from this year's count was the absence of other bird species.
The Great Backyar...
In yesterday's meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES), member countries could not rally enough support to pass protection measures for commercially fished sharks. Hunted for the namesake of shark fin soup, some groups estimate that as many as 73 million are...
Last weekend, the who's who of Western entertainment gathered in Los Angeles to cheer on the winners of coveted Oscar awards. The winner of the best documentary Oscar, "The Cove," got a much different reaction from the residents of the town that served as the film's location. That's because the docu...
LOS ANGELES, California, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - "The Cove," an American film documenting the annual killing of dolphins in a cove near the Japanese village of Taiji, was awarded an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Sunday night by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Directed by former N...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - The greater sage-grouse "warrants" the protection of the Endangered Species Act but listing the species at this time is "precluded by the need to address higher priority species first," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday.
A special working group working to save the International Whaling Commission met in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida to propose a "package" that could bring whaling and anti-whaling countries closer together. Notes from the Chairman, which clearly state that "nothing is agreed until everything is agree...
