Target has announced that all their stores will stop selling farmed salmon products. This move towards greater ocean conservation is a first by a major seafood retailer. Salmon consumption in the United States is a huge market for retailers.

From spreading sea lice to flooding the salmon market, fish farming in North America threatens the health of wild salmon populations. Alaska has already banned fish farming, but until Canada follows suit, Alaskan salmon remains under threat. Oh...

Critical habitat for the rare Islands wolf (Canis lupus ligoni, commonly known as the Alexander Archipelago wolf) – a wolf subspecies unique to Alaska’s panhandle, which is mostly occupied by the Tongass National Forest – is again under attack by...