State of Alaska and partners seek to overturn ringed seals’ threatened...
Ringed seals, dependent on Arctic sea ice and the snow atop it, are too plentiful and healthy to warrant Endangered Species Act protections, the...
Environmentalists plan lawsuit to force habitat protections for ice seals
An environmental group says it plans to sue the Trump administration for failing to designate critical habitat for two species of threatened ice seals...
In court and out, the Trump administration continues its push for...
The Trump administration has taken steps on two fronts to advance oil development in Arctic waters off Alaska.
In U.S. District Court in Anchorage on...
All Russian Arctic settlements to get fast internet
A red-line through the President Vladimir Putin’s state-of-the-nation speech on Thursday was the need to improve Russia’s business and infrastructure competitiveness and transformation to the high-tech...
Embattled US Interior secretary, who championed expanded Arctic oil development, resigns...
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has spent his two years in office pushing for new oil development across Arctic Alaska’s lands and waters, is...
Alaska’s new governor travels to Arctic for swearing-in ceremony
Alaska’s new governor was sworn into office on Monday in Kotzebue, making him the state’s first governor to formally assume office above the Arctic...
Rosneft wants to export Arctic natural gas. Russian legislators say no.
The Energy Committee in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has concluded that Rosneft should not be allowed to export...
Alaska’s independent governor drops re-election bid
Two days after Alaska’s lieutenant governor abruptly resigned in what appeared to be a sexual harassment scandal, Alaska’s governor ended his campaign for re-election...
Federal regulators plan speedier review of Alaska gas project
Environmental studies of plans for a natural gas pipeline running south from Alaska's Arctic, a project that has been proposed for decades, will require...
Greenland drafts constitution for its ultimate independence
In November 2016, a jubilant majority of the Inatsisartut, Greenland’s parliament, kick-started the drafting of a constitution for a future, independent Greenland. Lars-Emil Johansen,...
