Ice-clogged seas eight to 10 months every year. An ancient, indigenous people living on Alaska's North Slope who hunt local Bowhead whale. Marine mammals, deep-sea coral and Greenpeace. The Arctic ...

The very first tally of the Chukchi Sea polar bears has just been published, and here’s the big takeaway: Despite a decline in their sea ice habitat, for now the bears are doing well. In a study ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The only company to drill an exploratory oil well in Alaska's Chukchi Sea following a 2008 federal lease sale confirmed Tuesday it has relinquished nearly all of its leases.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Royal Dutch Shell on Monday was moving its drill ship off a prospect in the Chukchi Sea, a day after drilling began 70 miles off the Alaska coast because sea ice was moving toward ...

After investing seven years and $7 billion in hopes of finding a mother lode of oil in the American Arctic, Royal Dutch Shell PLC is scrapping its Chukchi Sea drilling program and ending exploration ...

The Obama administration is being at least somewhat more cautious this time around in allowing Royal Dutch Shell to drill in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea. The company must keep its drills from ...

Royal Dutch Shell has decided to give up all but one of its federal offshore leases in the Chukchi Sea, bringing what appears to be an anticlimactic end to its multibillion-dollar effort to turn those ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The only company to drill an exploratory oil well in Alaska's Chukchi Sea following a 2008 federal lease sale confirmed Tuesday it has relinquished nearly all of its leases. Royal ...

This article originally appeared at KNOM.org and is republished here with permission. Through the weekend of Nov. 13, ice extent in the Chukchi Sea was well above the month’s average of the last 30 ...

Oil exploration in the environmentally sensitive waters of the Arctic never made sense. It didn’t make sense two years ago when the U.S. Interior Department approved leases in the polar bear habitat ...