On December 27, 2006, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intent to propose the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the federal Endangered Species Act, due to the meltdown of its sea-ice habitat caused by global warming.

Following Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement that he would not rescind the “polar bear special rule,” which guts Endangered Species Act protections for polar bears, Greenpeace conducted a direct communication outside of the Department of the...

On March 11th Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law, a bill giving Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar the authority to immediately rescind Bush administration regulations that eliminate essential protections for the polar bear...

For the last three years, the Department of Interior has been dragging its feet when it comes to protecting the polar bear. Today, it finally listed the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This might seem like a victory...

In December of 2005, Greenpeace and two other conservation groups sued the Bush administration when it missed its first legal deadline to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Three years later, the federal government...

A year ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service promised a decision on the polar bear as a "threatened" species under the federal Endangered Species Act. January is here, time is up and once again the only thing this administration can come up...

Eight men had a chance to change the world. Unfortunately, one of those men was George W. Bush. The heads of government of the major industrial democracies met to discuss the most serious issues facing the world as part of the annual "G8"...