Alaskans today are grappling with an unclear future that is balanced between the impacts of a warming climate and the strain of depleting fisheries. What is clear is that a ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today brought new legal claims in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the Interior Department’s ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service updated rules governing how much Arctic oil drilling can bother the Beaufort Sea’s protected polar bears. The Fish and Wildlife Service revised the rules Wednesday ...

Teshekpuk caribou graze in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Bob Wick/BLM, CC BY The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across ...

As response teams continued Tuesday to evaluate Royal Dutch Shell's once-grounded oil drilling rig, the Coast Guard, the Obama administration and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich all announced investigations or ...

The Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it was opening the entire 1.56 million acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leases. The decision is the ...

The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine ...

The Trump administration has moved to reopen the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling, reversing one of President Biden’s signature environmental restrictions and cementing ...

The Trump administration opens the coastal plain of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas leasing after then-President Biden closed it to development. The Trump administration is ...

The Shell oil drilling rig that ran aground off Alaska last week is now anchored in a quiet harbor so divers can assess the damage. Wildlife officials say they have seen no evidence of a spill from ...