Companies made 667 bids for 448 tracts in the 29 million-acre area north of Point Barrow. The winning bids included a record-breaking $105.3 million offer by Shell Oil for one three-by-three-mile ...

Only 900 Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears remain, making them the most imperiled polar bear population in the world. New oil wells in their midst would be a disaster. Drilling activity under a ...

Oil drilling in the Arctic may need to slow down, now that polar bears, iconic symbols of global warming, are headed for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, experts said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global ...