Gwich’in and environmental opponents celebrate the results, while state officials expect the incoming Trump administration to make it easier to drill in the refuge.

With some projects in development now and a new extraction-friendly administration headed to the white house, will Alaska’s fossil fuel sector boom again?

The state of Alaska has been the biggest fan of oil and gas drilling in the refuge. It says this lease sale is designed to discourage development.

The murre die-off might have gone unexplained if it weren't for decades of observations from researchers and citizen scientists.

Contango Ore says it can develop mines faster and with a smaller environmental footprint. But some Alaskans fear an influx of ore trucks on state roads.

Impacts from President Jimmy Carter's landmark Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act continue today, especially for Alaska Native peoples.

The 2024 Arctic Report Card also documents increasing sea traffic and thriving ice seals.

For our Ask a Climatologist segment, Brian Brettschneider says this year was wetter than normal, particularly in the summer, despite a relatively snowless December.

People have been traveling from as far away as Anchorage to see a common house sparrow — which shouldn't be in Alaska at all.

A right-of-way agreement gives Nuiqsut’s city and tribal governments and Native corporation authority over 1 million acres to protect caribou habitat from oil impacts.

Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests about bycatch included blurry photos and blacked-out text that conceal important details, Oceana’s lawsuit says.

For his book “Into the Thaw,” Jon Waterman and a photographer traveled over 500 miles by foot and pack raft, visiting various communities along the Noatak River.