Two long hours to die – report reveals the cruel suffering of fin whales harpooned off Iceland
The appalling cruelty of fin whale hunting in Iceland has been laid bare in a new report by the country’s own veterinary experts
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Marking one year of the UK Ivory Act – and looking to the closure of the last legal ivory markets
Today (6 June) is the first anniversary of the implementation of the UK Ivory Act, the country’s comprehensive ban on virtually all forms of ivory trade
Thousands of small whales and dolphins slaughtered in Greenland’s poorly regulated hunts
New EIA research has revealed that more than 100,000 small cetaceans have been slaughtered in poorly regulated hunts off Greenland during the past three decades
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EIA podcast – as talks for a Global Plastics Treaty continue, what about the Big Oil lobby?
The UN Environment Assembly is in the process of negotiating a new Global Plastics Treaty, with the second phase of talks kicking off at the end of May to hammer out the details needed to properly address the fast-rising threat of plastics pollution
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US timber traders help support Myanmar’s brutal junta by skirting laws to import illicit teak
Today (16 May), EIA names 12 major American timber firms importing teak from Myanmar since the start of the 2021 military coup
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EU Parliament votes to tackle methane, including ‘invisible’ emissions from its energy imports
The European Parliament has today (9 May) voted on a critical piece of climate legislation in the form of the EU Methane Regulation