Where the Brooks Range ends, and the conflict begins (Photo: Fred Paillet) A week after two oil companies said they were ready to move ahead with a major oil project in northern Alaska, a third said it was ending its exploration activities, leaving only a state...
Where the reindeer and the oilmen play (Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service) Even before President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he would be banning imports of Russian energy — and at the same time warning Americans that they could expect prices to soar beyond...
The largest U.S. wildlife refuge in the Arctic, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been the site of a back-and-forth over oil exploration for decades. Now the U.S. government has put the extraction rights sold by the Trump administration on hold because of legal...
Female polar bears need snow caves to give birth to their cubs. On the north coast of Alaska, the animals have to move to the slopes of the mainland to do this because there is no more perennial ice. Because polar bears are protected, the location of snow dens must be...
President Joseph R. Biden, shown here at his inauguration ceremony yesterday, halted several resolutions passed by his predecessor in the first hours of his official term. Among them are the oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR....