As Royal Dutch Shell’s massive drill rig, the Polar Pioneer, chugs its way up the Alaskan coast, the 4,700 residents of Barrow, Alaska ... this summer in the Arctic Ocean has cast a shadow ...

In October, the people of the Alaskan town formerly known as Barrow, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, voted to restore its indigenous name, Utqiagvik. Zachariah Hughes of Alaska Public Media ...

Alaska's only highway to the Arctic, built to serve the ... gesturing to the tundra to the south and the ocean to the north, which together make Barrow one of the flattest spots on Earth.

Still, overall temperatures in Barrow and elsewhere on Alaska’s North Slope continue to rise despite the current phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Wendler said. Arctic Ocean conditions ...

BARROW, Alaska — Here at the top of the world, the news that Arctic sea ice has reached a ... Shell has asked the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to consider extending by 18 days the Sept.

A team of adventurers planning to drive a pair of hybrid Hummers to the South Pole later this year will soon test the specially modified vehicles on a 400-mile run across the frozen Arctic Ocean ...

The New York Times reported Friday that the U.S. Coast Guard is planning to establish its first Arctic base at an outpost in Barrow, Alaska ... on parts of the Arctic Ocean, particularly as ...

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973 ... After the C-130 landed, Donald “Nok” Acker of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), a nonprofit research ...

Last month, less sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean than in any other July ... Iñupiat Corporation in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. For Aarons, the reality hit long ago, and the question ...

The nation’s northernmost town — Utqiagvik, Alaska — is about to descend into months of darkness. Think of it this way: By the time the sun rises again, a new president will occupy the White ...