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• Is it time to kill the Antarctic Treaty?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image via Wikipedia Fifty years ago, 12 nations—Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union and the U.S.—agreed to cede their claims to Antarctica. The continent would belong to no nation and become a nature preserve and scientific ...
  1 week ago

• Area of Critical Habitat Proposed for Cook Inlet Beluga Whales

  
  Information About Alaska (IAA) — Authority: 121
  In a move sure to increase concerns over regulation by Alaska industry, NOAA Fisheries Service is proposing that about a third of Cook Inlet near Anchorage, Alaska may designated as critical habitat for some 300 endangered Beluga whales.
  1 week ago

• Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 614
  Marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows, mangroves and salt marshes have a much greater capacity to trap carbon than land carbon sinks such as forests, according to a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization believes ocean ecosystems are essential to combating global ...
  3 weeks ago

• Critical Habitat Designation for Polar Bears Debated in Alaska

  
  Information About Alaska (IAA) — Authority: 121
  This Administration is fully committed to the protection and recovery of the polar bear.
  3 weeks ago

• Big profit from nature protection

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image via Wikipedia Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. It says money ploughed into protecting wetlands, coral reefs and forests can bring a hundredfold return on capital. The Economics of ...
  4 weeks ago

• EPA Reviews Cruise Ship Discharges in Alaska

  
  Information About Alaska (IAA) — Authority: 121
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Cruise Ship Discharge Assessment Report is the first national account made by the agency on discharge standards utilized in Alaska waters.
  4 weeks ago

• Arctic Region Underprepared for Maritime Accidents

  
  Information About Alaska (IAA) — Authority: 121
  With the seasonal transit of the Northwest Passage becoming a reality, an increase in Arctic shipping traffic is inevitable. The energy, shipping and cruise industry all see opportunities for their operations in the Arctic Ocean.
  4 weeks ago

• Marine & Coastal Access Act a black day for marine environment

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 486
  ForArgyll has recently written about the marine bills working their way through the Parliaments of Westminster and Holyrood. The Marine and Coastal Access Bill is the English and Welsh version which was given Royal Assent yesterday (12th November). If you were to believe the government spin surrounding it you could be ...
  4 weeks ago

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