The study investigated the health of Arctic wildlife employing a variety of assessment techniques. These included contaminant analysis, a histological survey (the microscopic structure of animal tissues) and the documentation of observations by Inuit... Read More

With a growing number of scientific studies warning that the earth is at risk of approaching dangerous levels of climate change, WWF has high expectations that the Summit participants will recognize the urgency of... Read More

The global conservation organization’s “G8 Climate Scorecards” show that while the US remains the climate change schoolroom dunce, none of the others look particularly bright either. No G8 country could truly claim to be... Read More

The global conservation organization sees the Summit as a missed opportunity to make the world’s top eight economies agree to an effective agenda on climate change. “There’s nothing meaningful in the G8 text because... Read More

The coastal plain of the ANWR is the calving area for the Porcupine caribou herd, which lives the rest of the year in the Yukon and NWT. In September, the George Bush government will... Read More

The poll surveyed 1,020 Canadians between July 6 and July 12, 2005 and revealed that 54% of Canadians are opposed to the Bush administration’s push to open up the ANWR to drilling. Just 12%... Read More

“The Refuge is a sacred place for all Gwich’in people,” said Norma Kassi of the Vuntut Gwich’in in Old Crow, Yukon. “I visited the Refuge this spring and witnessed thousands of caribou with their... Read More

Along with adopting all of the necessary decisions to make the current Kyoto Protocol operational, countries must respond to the growing threat and commit to begin negotiations for the much deeper cuts in emissions... Read More

The global conservation organization warns that the impacts of climate change are hitting home already and negotiations at this level take time. As part of the Kyoto process, WWF says that negotiations must start... Read More