Trump has shifted the U.S. approach to the Arctic, promoting oil and gas even as scientists have issued more dire warnings ...

The Biden administration this week said it would bar oil drilling on millions of acres on Alaska's North Slope and cancel oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, stepping up its effort to ...

The leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were awarded at the end of the Trump administration. The Biden administration also moved to expand protections in the National Petroleum Reserve in ...

While the White House, Congress and the oil industry fight over the controversial deepwater drilling moratorium, a federal judge quietly made a significant decision on the next frontier of offshore ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell has secured another federal authorization as it pursues plans to drill exploration wells in the Arctic waters off the Alaska coast. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Arctic exploration often left little room for error. In one documented case, an explorer became trapped by ice with no usable ...

Alaska’s state-owned investment bank could get permission to start oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as the third quarter of this year, according to court documents ...

A polar bear is spotted on a multiyear ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on Aug. 13, 2023. The Trump administration is planning to designate a new "High Arctic" region off Alaska for offshore oil and gas ...

Alaska is conducting a “comprehensive review” of insurance companies it says may be discriminating against carbon intensive ...

OSLO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Eni's ENI.MI Norwegian subsidiary Vaar Energi VAR.OL said on Thursday it would ramp up exploration in the Arctic Barents Sea to increase its oil and gas production in the ...

Oil companies relinquished leases for 2.2 million acres of Arctic Sea for drilling earlier this month, giving up about 80 percent of the acreage leased in a 2008 sale. Shell, ConocoPhillips and other ...