After a long string of mishaps starting last August and including grounding its drill rig the Kulluk on New Year's Eve, Shell finally admits it isn't prepared to carry out exploration drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean in 2013. Audubon President and CEO David Yarnold is quoted in this Chicago Tribune article.
By Beth Peluso
February 27, 2013
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.