Promoting science and stewardship in Bering, Beaufort, Chukchi and Okhotsk Seas

This factsheet details basic facts about polar bears, the key threats to their existence, and WWF’s solutions and actions for protecting polar bears’ Arctic habitat from climate change, industrial threats and other harmful human activities.

This brochure shows how the addition of offshore oil and gas activities greatly compromise the potential for right whale populations to recover from endangerment of extinction.

This fact sheet explains the current statistics and facts about polar bears and their habitat, asserting that, based on conservative estimates on sea ice shrinkage rates, two-thirds of the polar bear population would become extinct by 2050.

This fact sheet details the largest issues facing the Arctic as a result of climate change, including the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of methane and CO2, and provides an overview of how they negatively impact Arctic vegetation and the ability for Arctic species to survive.

Climate change adds new threats to fish species over and above those posed by pollution, overexploitation and other factors. The largest threats are rising water temperatures that reduce the growth rates and survival, ocean acidification killing coral reefs, sea changes caused by thawing ice and ocean current disturbances.

This brochure explains how oil and gas drilling is expected to bring in approximately $7.7 billion over the 25-40 years experts believe it will take to extract these finite resources from Bristol Bay and the North Aleutian Basin.

This fact sheet demonstrates the need for international guidelines for protecting marine environments in light of increasing offshore development and its potentially adverse effects on the Arctic marine environment.

This fact sheet outlines WWF’s five-pronged approach to understanding and managing the Arctic

This report examines the gap that exists between the growing threat of a major oil spill in the Arctic and the capacity that exists to respond to it.

A Review of U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) “Arctic Oil Spill Response Research and Development Program – A Decade of Achievement.”

WWF commissioned these three reports to examine the current governance regime, identify governance and regulatory gaps and analyze options for improvements.

Over the past few decades, the Arctic has warmed at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe. The impact of this on the Arctic’s physical systems, biological systems, and human inhabitants is large and projected to grow throughout this century and beyond.

This report concludes that sea-levels will very likely rise by more than one meter by 2100 -- more than twice the amount given in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 assessment that had excluded the contribution of ice sheets from their projection.

This fact sheet details the largest issues facing the Arctic as a result of climate change, including the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of methane and CO2, and provides an overview of how they negatively impact Arctic vegetation and the ability for Arctic species to survive.

This fact sheet focuses on the effects of new species migrating to the area and creating competition for food and possibly importing new parasites and diseases. In addition, migratory birds arriving to the Arctic from non-Arctic areas will experience the disappearance of their stop-over nesting sites as a result of rising sea levels.

This brochure describes the Bering Sea and Kamchatka Peninsula as an extremely diverse environment that is home to more than half of the United States’ caught seafood and one-third of Russia’s seafood harvest, among other species. It also explains WWF’s continued work in the region over the last 18 years.

For nearly a quarter century, Bristol Bay has been off limits to oil and gas development. But protection has been peeled away with the lifting of the Congressional moratorium in 2004 and Presidential Withdrawals in January, 2007.