Arctic fossil fuel development shows significant overlaps with Indigenous communities and ecologically sensitive areas, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published shows that despite reductions in mercury release, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teshekpuk caribou graze in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Bob Wick/BLM, CC BY The largest tract of public land in the ...

The remote archipelago of Svalbard offers travelers an unparalleled opportunity to witness some of the Arctic's most magnificent wildlife in their natural habitat. This Norwegian territory, renowned ...

The Arctic is changing faster than most places on Earth. Ice is melting quickly, and this is opening new areas for oil and ...

A new atlas of Arctic oil and gas development reveals over 500,000 square kilometers of licensed territory, with major overlaps in Indigenous lands and critical wildlife habitats. Researchers found 73 ...

Toxins released by long-extinguished fossil fuel fires and gold smelters are showing up in the bodies of Arctic wildlife, according to new research pointing to mercury released by pollution hundreds ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is in danger of being opened to oil and gas drilling. Credit: Subhankar Banerjee / Seattle Times / TNS Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by ...

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