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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 Challenges Trump Administration’s Massive Old-growth Timber Sale in Alaska National Forest

By Randi Spivak | Biological Diversity on May 8, 2019   Featured, Southeast Alaska, State  

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Massive Old-growth Timber Sale in Alaska National Forest

  Prince of Wales Sale Would Harm Habitat, Local Economy JUNEAU, Alaska— Eight conservation groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday to stop its authorization of the largest logging project in the national forest system in a generation, including thousands of acres of old-growth timber in the Tongass National Forest. Tuesday’s lawsuit says the U.S. Forest Service is […]

Catching a Diversity of Fish Species — Instead of Specializing — Means More Stable Income for Fishers

By James Urton | University of Washington on Sep 19, 2017   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Catching a Diversity of Fish Species — Instead of Specializing — Means More Stable Income for Fishers

For people who make a living by harvesting natural resources, income volatility is a persistent threat. Crops could fail. Fisheries could collapse. Forests could burn. These and other factors — including changing management regulations and practices — can lower harvests, which depresses income for farmers, fishers and timber harvesters. But the ways that these forces […]

Old Fish Few and Far Between under Fishing Pressure

By Michelle Ma | University of Washington on Sep 14, 2017   At Sea, Science/Education  

Old Fish Few and Far Between under Fishing Pressure

Like old-growth trees in a forest, old fish in the ocean play important roles in the diversity and stability of marine ecosystems. Critically, the longer a fish is allowed to live, the more likely it is to successfully reproduce over the course of its lifetime, which is particularly important in variable environmental conditions. A new study by […]

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