By Moira Donovan For years, Wayne Mercredi spent hours driving the Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road. Leaving early in the ...

A June 8 letter to the editor reacting to the recent lease sale on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain omits ...

With the warmest summer ever recorded in 2023, Arctic communities and ecosystems are continuing to see dramatic changes. Spikes and declines in salmon populations, stronger and more frequent storms ...

In Utqiagvik, Alaska, the Iñupiat rely on whaling and subsistence hunting for the bulk of their diet, a practice dating back thousands of years. Powered by mineral wealth, the Iñupiat-run North Slope ...

Knik Arm Services is the second oil company to cancel its oil and gas lease for a tract of land in the largest wildlife reserve in America, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, following fierce ...

Given increasing geopolitical tensions and economic interest in the region, how can academic research support those who live ...

Map of oil and gas features and PAs in the Arctic region. [Basemap source: Global Oceans and Seas by Flanders Marine Institute (2021), licensed under a Creative ...

When Lucy Gray thinks about a warming planet, she knows her people—the Inuit from Nunavik in Canada—intuitively understood that their world was changing long before they heard the words “climate ...

Arctic fossil fuel development shows significant overlaps with Indigenous communities and ecologically sensitive areas, which might support calls from some scientists to keep Arctic fossil fuels in ...

This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, contributing to disasters across the wider region, including flooding in Juneau, Alaska and a record wildfire season in Canada. Those are ...