Alaska

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

Oil companies bid on more than 1 million acres in the first lease sale in the Western Arctic since 2019. The tracts included areas where leasing appears to be prohibited.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Expanded Arctic Drilling Faces a Wave of Lawsuits

By Nicholas Kusnetz

New Analysis Warns Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Trigger Thousands of Oil Spills

By Teresa Tomassoni

As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition

By Keerti Gopal

Congress Axes Biden-Era Protections That Shielded Alaskan Wetlands From Drilling

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

A Patch of Indigenous Land, Rich in Metals, Pits Prominent Miner and Native Owners Against Conservationists

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

ConocoPhillips Wants to Explore for Oil in an Arctic Wilderness

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Evacuating Remote Alaska Was Hard. Rebuilding Will Be Even Harder.

By Kiley Price

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fat Bear Week

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom

Canadian Company Exits Contentious Uranium Mining Project in Western Alaska

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

A National Quest for Uranium Comes to Remote Western Alaska, Raising Fears in a Nearby Village

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of Mining, Speculators Power a Hunt for Alaska’s Minerals

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections

By Kate Furby

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

Alaska Utilities Turn to Renewables as Costs Escalate for Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation

By Hal Bernton

Could Naturally Occurring Hydrogen Underground Be a Gusher of Clean Energy in Alaska?

By Hal Bernton

28 Million Acres of Alaska Public Lands Protected from Oil Drilling Following Trump-Era Reversal

By Kiley Price