Expanding oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could threaten these birds by disrupting their habitat and adding noise to the landscape. Many other species also depend on ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is particularly contentious because it is home to animals including grizzly bears, polar bears, gray wolves, caribou and more than 200 species of birds, as well ...

The White River National Forest has a new supervisor. Brian Glaspell, who has been acting supervisor since March, will assume the role as the top official for the most visited national forest in the ...

While "tromping through the tundra" at a camp in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2019, Michael Boardman, of North Yarmouth, said he was surprised to meet Schulte, a "fellow Mainer in the ...

A deadly helicopter crash in Alaska’s remote North Slope claimed the life of a prominent shorebird scientist at a research and conservation nonprofit in Plymouth. The death of Shiloh Schulte, a ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes. This small cemetery holds the graves of ...

Trump often highlights opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling as a key achievement, citing a 2017 tax law that authorized lease sales for oil and gas by the end of last year.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, right, was in McHenry County last week marking the latest addition to the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge, which runs from northern Illinois to southern Wisconsin.

Read about the rediscovery of the riparian woodrat, unique to San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge, and efforts to protect this rare California species.

Tanya Smith–founder and president of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, a 459-acre sanctuary in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, chiefly housing abused, abandoned, and neglected big cats—recalls a precocious ...

Levels of mercury in Arctic wildlife could continue to rise significantly even as countries curb their emissions, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed more than 700 samples of fish, mammals ...