Venice Louisiana proudly calls itself the world’s “Fishing Capital” but as the Memorial Day holiday weekend gets under way, there are times when it seems journalists outnumber anglers in this steamy bayou town. There are also lots of fishing and charter guides with no or few clients.

The giant Gulf of Mexico oil spill is breaching some of the apparently threadbare defences that are being used contain it, an ominous sign for the clean-up ahead.

Louisiana walruses? Seals swimming along the Gulf Coast? These creatures normally live in the Arctic Ocean, not the Gulf of Mexico, but they’re listed as “sensitive biological resources” that could be affected by a Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a BP document.

I submit that Americans have become too trusting and complacent toward multinational corporations – will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico be a wake-up call? writes Rona Fried.

Here is a breakdown of the companies that made headlines May 8 to May 21 for winning or losing credibility based on environment-related activity, compiled by ASSET4 data providers.

Silicon Valley venture capital fund Khosla Ventures has roped in former British prime minister Tony Blair as senior advisor, hoping to leverage his international connections and geopolictical expertise.

A handful of oily sand grabbed from a Louisiana wetland brought back some strong memories for Alaska tribal people of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill — and fears of what might happen if exploratory offshore drilling goes forward in the Arctic Ocean.

Whales and dolphins should get “human rights” to life and liberty because of mounting evidence of their intelligence, a group of conservationists and experts in philosophy, law and ethics said.

Should whales and dolphins have rights to live undisturbed in the oceans? Some conservationists and philosophers think so.

Why would we treat the alien and hostile environment of the deep ocean with any less caution that we treat space, where we go only with multiple back-up systems? asks environmentalist and documentarian Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Nearly six years ago, Senator John Kerry and Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens were mortal political enemies. On Wednesday, the billionaire and the Massachusetts senator met to promote proposed climate legislation.

Here is a breakdown of the companies that made headlines Apr. 23 to May 7 for making or losing credibility based on environment-related activity, compiled by ASSET4 data providers.

East Africa’s Lake Tanganyika might be getting too hot for sardines, with water temperatures rising to their highest levels in the last millennium and a half.

This isn’t just about BP developing a better backup plan, or how much boom they can lay down around the vulnerable barrier islands. There will always be spills and blowouts as long as we continue operating like we have in the past, Greenpeace deputy campaigns director Dan Howells writes.

ENVIRONMENT/JAGUAR

An Arizona biologist who illegally snared an extremely rare borderlands jaguar that later died of kidney failure, has been sentenced to five years probation and fined $1,000, authorities said on Friday.