With a stroke of his pen, President Trump began the process to re-open millions of acres of federal waters to make those areas once again eligible for off-shore drilling for natural gas and oil. In a Roosevelt Room signing on Friday, Trump sought to undo a decision by former President Obama, made in late December, […]
In one of his final moves in the waning days of his presidency, President Obama designated huge swathes of seas off of the coast of the Atlantic seaboard and the Arctic Ocean off limits to off-shore oil and gas lease sales. While in-coming president, Donald Trump has vowed while on the campaign trail to […]
The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Healy is moored in the port of Seward this week after completing the first in what is to be a three-part science mission in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea. 46 researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Alaska-Anchorage are disembarking after 39 days at sea. Taking […]
Children’s singer and songwriter Raffi may have brought beluga whales into popular culture with his 1980 song “Baby Beluga,” but surprisingly little is actually known about the life and ecology of these elusive marine mammals that live in some of the world’s most remote, frigid waters. Two distinct populations spend winters in the Bering Sea, […]