The geographical proximity of the US and Russia to the Arctic Ocean will generate a constant political tremor in the ...

President Donald Trump has begun his America First overhaul of government, signing scores of executive orders in his first ...

In the first few hours of his second presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that could pave the way for oil drilling in North Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

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Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge, which runs a unit near the Scott County Fairgrounds in St. Lawrence Township, was ...

Alaska's political leaders are cheering an executive order that aims to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the ...

U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's ...

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Photo George Wuerthner Trump also wants to expand oil development on the National Petroleum Reserve and to eliminate any special protected areas within the ...

Drill baby drill!” These chilling words announced by Donald Trump at his inauguration on 20 January herald four years of doom ...

It seeks, among other things, to open to oil and gas drilling an area of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge considered sacred to the Indigenous Gwich'in, undo limits imposed by the Biden ...

The sound and sight of so many cranes clustered together creates a chorus of trills, trumpets and honks throughout the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Center ... from out of town who wanted ...

The first half aired Wednesday night. The second Trump administration intends to unlock Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which former president Joe Biden restricted from oil ...