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The Obama Administration has removed the Arctic Ocean from any new offshore oil and gas leasing for the next five years. The plan was announced by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, part of the Department of the Interior, and includes 11 approved...

A walrus haul-out in the Serdtse Kamen Cape on the Chukotka Peninsula. (Photo: Anatoliy Kochnev, Haulout Keepers) Norwegian police and Special Forces  cleared Green Peace protestors off an oil rig in the Barents Sea this week. Activists...

I live in Barrow, Alaska. Wait a minute. No I don’t. I live in Utqiagvik, Alaska. It turns out that the town of Barrow has elected to change its name to Utqiagvik, or at least we have initiated the process for making this change. Okay. It’ll take...

“Instead of working at Walmart, I now have a new career that I am proud of,” Bobby Don Johnson beams at me at the end of our interview. Bobby used to work as a consultant field engineer in the oil industry. The ups and downs in this line of work gave...

To the list of people who had high hopes for this past New Jersey winter — cross-country skiers, outdoor skaters, ice boat sailors — add the foresters trying to save New Jersey's Southern pine forest. Biting Cold Could Exterminate Southern...