When ConocoPhillips won federal approval last year to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, environmental groups warned the ...

A federal judge ruled that regulators reasonably concluded a combination of snow cover, frozen soil and operational limits ...

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

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

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell has secured another federal authorization as it pursues plans to drill exploration wells in the Arctic waters off the Alaska coast. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Alaska’s state-owned investment bank could get permission to start oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as the third quarter of this year, according to court documents ...

The Arctic is experiencing a steady rise in human-generated underwater noise as melting ice and increasing activity open the ...