Alaska Green News

British oil giant BP has begun cleaning up a second pipeline leak at its Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska this week, after fluid spilled from a flow line on Wednesday. The incident did not impact oil production in Prudhoe Bay,...

More than 7,770 sq kms in Alaska would be protected as critical habitat for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale, under a proposal issued by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The area would encompass more than a third...

From the Partnership for Public Service Monday, November 30, 2009; 5:22 AM For Leslie Holland-Bartels of the U.S. Alaska's polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act was a great accomplishment. But the 2008 federal designation also...

Obama had played key roles in the passage of reform and other legislation in the U.S...Obama was a lead co-sponsor of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act ( S.2590 ), which sought to "require full disclosure of all entities...

Earlier this week, it was reported that Shell Oil Company had been granted permission to start drilling exploratory offshore wells in the area of the Beaufort Sea. It was also revealed that renowned marine scientist and conservationist Rick Steiner had...

Washington— Pursuant to a partial settlement in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Greenpeace, today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to designate over 200,000 square miles of coastal lands...

A prominent marine scientist at the University of Alaska has been denied his federal research grant and evicted from his office because he was an "advocate" for environmental protection, according to a ruling released yesterday by Public Employees for Environmental...

Study-group of wolves in Alaska being targeted -- legally-- by hunters. Starting September 1st the hunting season opened in Alaska, and sportsmen are allowed to kill up to TEN wolves each. While things are certainly bad enough for beleaguered wolves...

Warming from greenhouse gases has trumped the Arctic's millennia-long natural cooling cycle, suggests new research. Although the Arctic has been receiving less energy from the summer sun for the past 8,000 years, Arctic summer temperatures began climbing in 1900 and...

On July 29, 2009, new legislation was introduced to the US Congress to help stop what can only be termed ‘barbaric and unsound’ wolf control measures. There is currently a frighteningly single-minded campaign to devastate Alaska’s wolf and bear populations....