Greenland Raises Hunting Quota for Narwhales
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Text of report by Danish newspaper Politiken website on 10 December  Greenland politicians are increasing the hunting quotas for narwhales against recommendations made by biologists.
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A tiny speck of pebbles found off the northern coast of Greenland could open up a new front in the looming battle for control of the Arctic and the North Pole.
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By SUE MAJOR HOLMES  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An environmental group went to court Thursday in an effort to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand a program to reintroduce the endangered Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico and Arizona.
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The federal government has approved plans to spend more than &#36;2.4 million to squeeze the world's largest colony of salmon-eating Caspian terns off a Columbia River island so they will establish new nesting areas as far away as San Francisco Bay.
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Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat, which campaigners say breaches wildlife trading rules.
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Text of report by Caribbean Media Corporation news agency website  ANCHORAGE, Alaska, CMC - Like its neighbours in the Eastern Caribbean, Antigua is gearing up to do battle with France over a plan to set up a marine mammal sanctuary in the French West Indies.
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Arctic plant seeds are able to migrate the distances needed to survive climate changes, scientists suggest.
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Anti-whaling activists hunted a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, intent on ramming its flagship, as pro-whaling nations met in Tokyo to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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The bird lovers of northern Europe who put out winter food for thrushes, robins, great tits, finches and other species have won the seal of approval from science.
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The number of wild birds killed illegally in the UK rise by more than 50% in 2006, the RSPB reveals.
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It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas.
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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole  and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more  accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said  on Monday.
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TORONTO -- Canada announced plans yesterday to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage -- a potentially oil-rich region the United States says is international territory.
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Republican gains in the Senate from last month's elections have pumped new life into the administration-backed move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, prompting environmentalists to mount what one of them called "the fight of our lives" to defeat the proposal.
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Sept. 20 -- An auction of rights to name 10 newly discovered species of fish raised more than $2 million for conservation efforts in eastern Indonesia on Thursday night, setting a record for an event of its type.
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Japan said Wednesday that the International Whaling Commission should allow four of its coastal communities to hunt minke whales because the tradition is so old that it qualifies as subsistence hunting.
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EU fisheries ministers agreed quotas on Tuesday for new member states to catch deepwater fish, exotic but threatened species that are fast becoming an alternative to mainstays like cod and hake, officials said.