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Trump Administration Permits Oil Company to Harm Alaska’s Endangered Whales, Ice Seals

By Emily Jeffers | Center for Biological Diversity on Dec 19, 2019   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Trump Administration Permits Oil Company to Harm Alaska’s Endangered Whales, Ice Seals

  Liberty Would Be First Offshore Drilling Project in Federal Arctic Waters ANCHORAGE—The Trump administration Thursday announced the issuance of federal take permits that would allow Hilcorp Alaska to kill or seriously injure 14 whales and nine ice seals as it constructs the Liberty offshore drilling island. The controversial project would be the first offshore drilling […]

Trump Administration Sued for Failing to Protect Imperiled Ice Seals’ Arctic Habitat

By Emily Jeffers | Center for Biological Diversity on Jun 13, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Trump Administration Sued for Failing to Protect Imperiled Ice Seals’ Arctic Habitat

  WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to designate critical habitat in Alaska for two ice-seal species. Both bearded and ringed seals are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because climate change is melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. “Ice seals’ homes are melting […]

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Arctic Habitat of Endangered Ice Seals

By Emily Jeffers | Center for Biological Diversity on Mar 15, 2019   At Sea, Featured, National, National/World  

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Arctic Habitat of Endangered Ice Seals

  [dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice Thursday of its intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service to compel the designation of critical habitat in Alaska for two ice seal species. Both bearded and ringed seals are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because their Arctic sea-ice habitat is melting. “As […]

Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Causes Earliest Pacific Walrus Haul Out Ever

By Emily Jeffers | Center for Biological Diversity on Aug 17, 2017   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Causes Earliest Pacific Walrus Haul Out Ever

CHUKCHI SEA, Alaska— Hundreds of Pacific walruses have hauled out of Arctic waters near Alaska’s Point Lay due to declining sea ice levels, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. It’s the earliest haul out the agency has ever seen, and scientists fear a repeat of stampedes that have killed hundreds of walruses in recent […]



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