Gulls forage on the Norton Sound beach at Nome on Oct. 2, 2020. Norton Sound is part of the Northern Bering Sea. Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama took action to prevent oil leasing in the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing. The decision ...

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it was canceling seven oil drilling leases sold by the Trump administration in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). “As the ...

WASHINGTON — In a major legal blow to President Donald Trump’s push to expand offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on ...

The Biden administration’s decision this week to review new Trump-era oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a positive step, experts and environmentalists say. But it falls far ...

The Arctic has been the source of geopolitical conflict and territorial disputes for centuries. From walrus ivory and seal skins starting in the middle ages to coal, oil, and gas today, the Arctic is ...

In the beginning of June, the Biden administration took another important step to keep oil drills out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The order, issued by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...