A red alert for the future Arctic
Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod was right when he issued a “red alert” in November and called for an urgent national debate on the...
Muscles are flexed in the Arctic — but they are not...
"The Arctic holds the highest suicide rate in the world," Tero Vauraste said. "We have to do something about that."Most attendees were prepared for...
Current NPR-A plan makes sense for both wilderness and oil development
In the glow of the midnight sun, we’re paddling down the wild Utukok River in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Here, the wilderness swallows you,...
The current Alaska petroleum reserve plan is solid. Don’t fall for...
During Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s Alaska visit this past May, he issued a rather hastily ginned-up secretarial order at an oil industry...
Murkowski earns respect; ANWR needs protection
Sen, Lisa Murkowski and I are on different sides when it comes to the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but that...
How Trump made me a whistleblower after I warned of danger...
I am not a member of the deep state. I am not big government.I am a scientist, a policy expert, a civil servant and...
Alaska pipeline doesn’t need Arctic refuge oil
Oil-industry allies are plotting to trick today’s Republican-controlled Congress into approving drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by falsely claiming that if we...
Alaska’s dark mirror in the Russian Far East shows our luck,...
The part of Russia that looks on a map like a mirror image of Alaska has lived in an opposite universe.While Anchorage grew in...
Naming rights and the battle for Alaska oil on federal land
It would be easy to justify oil exploration in something called the "Arctic Oil Reserve," a name once invented by the Alaska congressional delegation...
Alaska needs to join movement to honor non-binding terms of Paris...
Since Alaska has been heating up twice as fast as the Lower 48 and has visible signs of permafrost melting and rapidly shrinking glaciers,...
