Environmental conservation news: North America
06 Oct 2008
connect2earth Prize Awarded
Sofia Mateus, a 29-year-old Swiss/Portuguese, is the grand prize winner of an international youth competition running on connect2earth, the green on-line community where young people can have their say about the environment by uploading videos, pictures and comments.
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26 Sep 2008
Cod takes a battering
There was a significant setback for cod recovery this week following the annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) in Vigo, Spain.
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18 Sep 2008
Lights out campaign lights up marketing awards
WWF’s “Earth Hour”, which encouraged consumers around the world to switch off their lights for 60 minutes, again blazed its way into the spotlight as Asia’s most effective marketing campaign for 2008 yesterday.
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15 Sep 2008
Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever
Arctic sea ice may well have reached its lowest volumes ever, as summer ice coverage of the Arctic Sea looks set to be close to last year’s record lows, with thinner ice overall.
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11 Sep 2008
US cleaning giant joins WWF Climate Savers
American firm JohnsonDiversey, one of the world’s largest providers of commercial cleaning products and services, has joined the WWF Climate Savers programme.
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03 Sep 2008
Long haul to measure Arctic sea ice confirmed
WWF has welcomed the news that a pioneering expedition to deliver the most accurate measurements yet of the arctic ocean ice sheet has secured the funding it needs for the survey. » Read more
13 Aug 2008
Advertising not sustainable, authority tells Shell
A Shell suggestion in advertising that oil sands were a sustainable energy source has been ruled out of order by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, upholding a complaint lodged by WWF-UK.
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31 Jul 2008
Flawed U.S. Regulations on Captive Tigers, New Report Shows
Huge gaps in U.S. regulations could make Tigers held in captivity a target for illegal trade, wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and WWF found in the first-ever report into captive Tiger regulations across the United States.
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29 Jul 2008
Scraping the bottom of the oil barrel a significant new climate risk
Exploitation of North America’s shale and tar-sand oil reserves could increase atmospheric CO2 levels by up to 15%, a new report from WWF-UK and the major UK financial group Co-Operative Financial Services (CFS) has warned.
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29 Jul 2008
Scraping the bottom of the barrel – unconventional oil could cost us the earth
With oil prices soaring, investing in unconventional fuel sources - such as oil sands or oil shale – could appear to be an attractive option, but according to a new report released today by WWF and the Co-operative Financial Services (CFS), such investments are both environmentally and economically unsustainable and can only serve to undermine international efforts to combat climate change.
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