Review of environmental impact of proposed Chukchi drilling expected within 10 months
A new-and-improved analysis of environmental impacts from oil-and-gas leasing in the Chukchi Sea is expected to be done by March,
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Judge has issues with Corps’ plan to allow road, bridge to National Petroleum Reserve in Arctic Alaska
A hotly contested permit allowing ConocoPhillips to build a road and bridge to a new oil field is now in
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Arctic sea ice littered with tiny bits of ‘microplastic’ pollution
Dartmouth scientist Rachel Obbard was looking at samples of Arctic sea ice for small organisms when something else caught her
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Biologists expect module will help them treat sick, injured polar bears
If a sick or distressed adult polar bear is spotted on Alaska’s North Slope, wildlife managers have few options. They
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Soot, heat combined to create unusual melt on Greenland’s ice sheet
The 10,521-foot summit of Greenland’s desolate ice sheet was the site of a rare phenomenon in 2012 — the top
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U.S. Military panel: Climate change policy impacts national security
In a report issued this week, a military panel says the United States is making a big mistake in failing
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Rock snot is no Alaska invader, but it’s spreading fast as climate warms
Rock snot, a slimy-looking algae that vexes salmon and salmon fishermen, is not an alien invader but a homegrown threat
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Investigation into walrus disease closes with no culprit identified
An investigation into a mysterious disease afflicting Pacific walruses has been closed with no culprit identified, federal agencies said on
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Natural forces team up with human-caused warming to bake Greenland/Canadian Arctic:study
A portion of eastern Arctic Canada and neighboring Greenland has baked the past 30 years, heating up at a rate
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U.S.-Russia tensions create worries for Arctic scientists
For a week in June, about 20 Russian emergency-management experts and scientists and their U.S. counterparts were planning to tour
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Alaska feels outsized effects of climate change, according to new national report
Climate changes bringing severe weather, floods, droughts and rising sea levels to the rest of the nation are accentuated in
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Alaska wood frogs are champion deep-freeze hibernators: study
North America’s northernmost amphibians can stay frozen solid most of the year before they thaw and emerge to hop, breed,
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Oil-soaked snow removal continues at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Crews responding to a pipeline leak at the Prudhoe Bay oil field have completed their freeze protection of the leaking
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Report: Human effect on climate raises questions about Arctic’s future
As ice sheets melt and thawing permafrost coastlines erode, what archaeological resources will be uncovered and possibly lost to the
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New study helps scientists better understand the world of walruses
There is a magical spot in the northern Bering Sea where, if ice and weather conditions are just right, large
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