The herd that roams between northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada is down in size from the all-time high counted in ...

Gwich’in leaders are renewing their legal challenge to protect the Arctic Refuge and the Porcupine caribou herd that has ...

The challenge targets an Interior fossil fuel development program that scrapped protections implemented under the Biden ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled against the state of Alaska in an 11-year-old legal dispute that has significant implications for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and state ...

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

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

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 ...

In the first few hours of his second presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that could pave the way for oil drilling in North Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the ...

Trump administration finalizes Arctic Refuge drilling plan Move fulfills GOP pledge to expand U.S. energy production Gwich’in communities oppose drilling on sacred lands Conservationists vow lawsuits ...

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The Obama administration is proposing new protections for large portions of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The U.S. Department of Interior says it's the first time it's recommended ...

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