More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent due to climate change, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists. The scientists said the spread of taliks — volumes of unfrozen ground within areas of permafrost — has major […]
“We support Congress and the Biden administration taking long-overdue action to… reestablish protections for this crown jewel of our national wildlife refuge system,” said one activist. Conservationists and climate campaigners on Thursday welcomed the news that another fossil fuel company has canceled a controversial Trump-era lease to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, […]
Fairbanks, Alaska — Regenerate Alaska, a subsidiary of Australia-based 88 Energy, has elected to cancel its lease in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The company was the only oil company to purchase a lease in last year’s first-ever oil and gas lease sale for the Arctic Refuge held at the end of the Trump administration. […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – As extremely saturated trails continue to dry out after record snowfall this winter, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern Interior Field Office (EIFO) extended the temporary closure to all motorized vehicles including off-highway vehicles (OHVs) on the Wickersham Creek, Trail Creek, and Quartz Creek trails to prevent trail degradation and resource damage. “Much of the snow has melted but the […]