A bone-thin polar bear lumbers along an ice shelf, mustering all the strength she can to find food. Her icy hunting grounds are RAPIDLY MELTING, and food is getting harder to find. She’s beginning to STARVE!

The Arctic is warming TWICE as fast as the rest of the world. Animals are already enduring some of the worst impacts of the climate crisis: malnutrition, starvation, and habitat loss! Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears are the most imperiled polar bear population in the entire world, with only 900 remaining!

Meanwhile, corporate cruise companies charge TITANIC vessels into the Arctic, spewing TOXIC POLLUTION, dumping WASTEWATER, and sending ARCTIC-MELTING EMISSIONS into the atmosphere. The air, water, and noise pollution harms local people and drives away fish that both polar bears and Indigenous communities rely on for food. 

If the EPA allows this to continue, it’s a DISASTER waiting to happen. You can help push the EPA to take action! The Arctic is melting FAST, Friend. Please take immediate action to STOP corporate cruise companies from recklessly charging through fragile habitats!

Dumped toxic chemicals can seep into the food chain, hurting everyone and everything that depends on the ocean’s resources! Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise company, is the worst offender. It lugged 11,000 tons of toxic heavy fuel through ESSENTIAL ARCTIC HABITATS in just one year!

The Arctic cannot afford the destruction caused by greedy cruise corporations. The EPA could take significant pressure off this fragile ecosystem by reining in cruise pollution. But we need YOUR help! If just 1 of every 13 people reading this email takes action, we can help give the Arctic a fighting chance against pollution. Tell the EPA to rein in corporate cruise companies by 11:59pm TONIGHT!

Standing with you,
Marcie Keever
Oceans and vessels program director,
Friends of the Earth