The Interior Department is taking additional steps to enable oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, revoking Biden-era documents that called for expanding “Special Areas” that ...

The last true wilderness in America is in the northernmost region of Alaska, and just getting there is a daring feat that requires intense planning.

Dec. 27—The Shublik Mountains stretch parallel to Alaska's Arctic coast, with rocky ridges surrendering to miles and miles of North Slope tundra. Talus and boulder fields, as well as occasional ...

The North Slope of Alaska was once the last frontier of The Last Frontier, an immense expanse of treeless wilderness inhabited by a few rugged Eskimos and countless Arctic critters. That was ...

Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, mayor of the Inupiaq village of Nuiqsut, at the area where a road to the Willow project will be built in the North Slope of Alaska, March 23, 2023. The Interior Department ...

Allowing new North Slope drilling in this context not only destroys the Biden administration’s leadership on climate, it is dangerous. Climate change is impacting all 7.9 billion of us living on ...

Energy What Alaska leaders, North Slope groups, conservation groups, industry and others are saying about Biden’s Willow project approval By Riley Rogerson, Alex DeMarban Published: March 13, 2023 ...

The North Slope oil patch is a brutal contrast to the wilderness we've left behind. Its 19 fields, 3,900 wells (which pump a million barrels a day), and hundreds of waste pits sprawl across some ...

(THE CONVERSTION) – For more than six decades, Alaska’s North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field ...

In the year that North Slope oil production began, Alaska's population was about 410,000. Now Alaska is home to about 635,000 people. The state's budget has grown from $1 billion to over $7 ...

Industry and state and federal government officials anticipate another 30 to 40 years of oil production from lands already under lease on Alaska's North Slope. Estimates generally exclude the huge ...

According to a USGS publication, glaciers in Alaska haven’t been found north of Brooks Range. “It is the northernmost glacier in the U.S.,” said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Louis Sass.