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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat was attacked by armed officers from the Canadian Coast Guard on 12th April. The 1st officer and the captain of the ship have been arrested and will be brought before a court in Canada charged with offences related to coming too close to the...

The US government agency responsible for including the polar bear on its list of endangered species faced a new legal challenge yesterday over its failure to protect the supreme Arctic predator. Environmental groups were ready to sue the Bush administration in federal court in California, claiming...

Yesterday, Paul R Ehrlich gave a talk at the institute. Loads of people came. He talked about how we (humanity as a whole) are happily multiplying and consuming our way to our doom.. while we somehow manage to completely ignore climate change, millions of starving people, growing risk of epidemics and the fact that we're turning the planet that provides our food, water and air into a dump.... hmmm... and he said all that in a way that made everybody laugh... he's a very witty, funny.. bit sarcastic speaker... it was an excellent talk.