Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...

The following is the July 2, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to ...

Since the Cold War, the United States and many of its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies have regarded the Arctic as a ...

What's at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska by Mariah Meek, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...

Trump has announced he will open millions of acres of National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska up to oil and gas companies.

With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law, the time is ripe to look back at a plan by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to sell ...

Indigenous communities in the Arctic, particularly the Iñupiat people, also depend on these lands, waters and wildlife for subsistence hunting and fishing.

Research suggests new seasons are surfacing – such as 'haze' and 'trash' seasons – while some are entirely disappearing ...

The Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter program received $4.3 billion under the federal budget bill, but it isn’t expected to deliver its first new ship until 2030 at the earliest.

Rear Adm. Bob Little is the new commander of the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska, just as the big budget bill passes the president ...