The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska. It's called the National Petroleum Reserve ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

The president is moving to erase protections for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as part of his efforts to boost fossil ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska is once again asking the Board of Game to allow wildlife managers to shoot bears from helicopters in a rural part of Southwest ...

Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, traverse the snowy heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range. Each spring, caribou all across the North American Arctic begin extraordinary migrations toward their calving grounds.

(Photo by Kyle Joly/National Park Service) The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023.

In June 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) blocked a proposal to construct a 211-mile road through Alaska’s famed Brooks Range. The project, known as the Ambler Road, would have given ...

But for the Gwich’in, whose range stretches between Alaska, Yukon and Northwest Territories, the Porcupine caribou herd is even more central to their worldview.

Alaska needs to revamp its outdated Intensive Management Law, passed in 1994 to ensure that certain populations of moose, caribou and deer are sufficient to provide food for Alaskans.