Peter Auster

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts are under threat of being harmed in ways from which they may never recover.

Just 130 miles off our coast lies the first and only marine national monument off the continental United States, a place protected from most human harms.

The recent announcement that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is narrowing the scope of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is, to say the least, distressing.  The most egregious changes to the Act eliminate consideration of threats to species from climate change and lift the prohibition on conducting economic impact analyses, clouding the science of survival with short term monetary gain.