To put this in perspective, last year’s reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that melting the entire Greenland ice sheet would raise sea levels by 7.3 metres. We’re not saying this... Read More

The new report, called Arctic Climate Impact Science – An Update Since ACIA, represents the most wide-ranging reviews of arctic climate impact science since the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) was published in 2005.... Read More

Today’s conservation win is a credit first and foremost to the efforts of the Gwich’in people who depend on the Porcupine caribou herd, the Government of Canada which has stood firm in its opposition... 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

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 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 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

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

World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) held numerous meetings with key Ministers and their officials in October, urging the federal government to commit this funding to implement the Mackenzie Valley Action Plan as part of... Read More

On September 10, in Calgary, Stéphane Dion, Prime Minister Martin’s Environment Minister said that, “long-term economic success is no longer possible without environmental sustainability.” WWF-Canada’s President Emeritus, Monte Hummel, is in favour of that... Read More

WWF’s Living Planet Report 2002 shows that humans are currently running a huge deficit with the Earth – using over 20 percent more natural resources each year than can be regenerated – and this... Read More

This encouraging public support comes as alarming scientific results on overfishing were released on the weekend by Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre at the meeting of the American Association... Read More