Dept. of Interior approves drilling in Chukchi Sea
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar conditionally approved Shell Oil Company’s plan to drill three “exploratory, information-gathering” oil wells in…
The Seward Peninsula: Our Arctic backyard
The Los Angeles Times has posted an audio slideshow by Robert Gauthier featuring photographs of the Alaskan Arctic, along with…
Norwegian government re-elected; Arctic oil drilling now unlikely
With 99% of the votes counted, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s center-left coalition appears to have won the national elections held…