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Alaska

Most of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is protected under the Roadless Rule. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Alaska Tribes Petition to Preserve Tongass National Forest Roadless Protections

By Katelyn Weisbrod

An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska on May 25, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Advocates’ New Tactic: Calling Opposition to Arctic Drilling ‘Racist’

By Ilana Cohen

Polar bear cubs spend the first two months of their lives in their dens. A new study found that mothers are unlikely to evacuate their den with their cubs—even if their lives are threatened. Credit: Steven C. Amstrup/Polar Bears International

Polar Bear Moms Stick to Their Dens Even Faced With Life-Threatening Dangers Like Oil Exploration

By Katelyn Weisbrod

National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Credit: National Park Service

Trump Plan Would Open Huge Area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Drilling

By Sabrina Shankman

Northern Alaska. Credit: Sabrina Shankman/InsideClimate News

In Alaska’s North, Covid-19 Has Not Stopped the Trump Administration’s Quest to Drill for Oil

By Sabrina Shankman

Newtok, Alaska is relocating because of rising seas and melting permafrost

Global Warming Could Thaw Far More Permafrost Than Expected

By Zahra Hirji

Climate Models Help Alaskans on Warming's Front Line

By Amy Nordrum

Shell's Kulluk mobile oil drilling rig is towed by tugs off the coast Alaska in

Committee to Make Offshore Oil Drilling Safer May Disband

By Jason Plautz

Gulf of Mexico, June 2010

BP's Alaska Penalty Points to Big Gulf Fine

Tom Bergin, Reuters

Mass Walrus Migration in Alaska, from Melting Ice to Dry Land

By Guest Writer

Murkowski's Bid to Repeal Science and Block EPA Fails in U.S. Senate: 53 to 47

By Stacy Feldman

Offshore Drilling Move Muddies Obama’s Relationship to Oil and Gas

By Dave Levitan

Thawing Permafrost Could Emit Massive Amounts of Greenhouse Gases

By Laura Shin

Palin's Call for 50% Renewables by 2025 in Alaska: Green Lipstick?

By Stacy Feldman

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