After nearly 40 years of heated debate, Congress voted on Wednesday to open the Alaska refuge to oil drilling. Now, it's a wait to see who will actually drill and when.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just got a reprieve—but it’s not safe yet The U.S. recently announced it would suspend oil and gas leases in a pristine Alaskan ecosystem. But many ...

What Waterman achieves in his new book, “Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” is much more than another synthesis of observations about wild ...

The guest talked about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and continuing to protect it from oil drilling. In the U.S. Senate March 16 lawmakers who favor oil drilling in ANWR defeated an ...

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 101 Protecting America’s Last Great Wilderness from Being Sold Out for a Congressional Tax Scam Allowing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would ...

The Department of the Interior on Monday approved an oil and gas leasing program within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the sprawling home to polar bears, caribou and other wildlife.

Twenty years ago, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) displayed this photo on the U.S. Senate floor to urge her fellow senators to vote against fossil fuel development in the Arctic National Wildlife ...

GETTING THERE: The easiest way to visit the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is by signing onto a trip sponsored by a commercial, permitted outfitter. Whether it's backpacking, rafting or base ...

Selling development rights to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most precious and valuable ecosystems on Earth, for $25 or $34 an acre is a national and international disgrace.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is one of the Earth’s last intact ...