During the summer, several destinations, from Norway to Alaska, experience the Midnight Sun, a phenomenon where the sun ...

Meteorologists and astronomers call the lengthy bright stretch there “polar day.” It’s the opposite of “polar night,” or the ...

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. discovered it in the ... the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a separate drill ship in the Chukchi Sea, west of Point Barrow and north ...

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 ...

Around here, a bad throw can land in the Arctic Ocean ... of Alaska feel connected as Alaskans, even though they're geographically... Yes. so disconnected because there's no roads from Barrow ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Most federal Arctic waters were ... had been used for Shell’s exploration in the Beaufort Sea, the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Most federal Arctic ... the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a separate drill ship in the Chukchi Sea, west of Point Barrow ...

A sinking coastline and a rising ocean combine to yield ... Before leaving the Arctic, I drive to Point Barrow alone. There, at the tip of Alaska, roughshod hunting shacks dot the spit of land ...

The Trump administration is eying the possibility of oil leasing in Arctic Ocean areas more than 200 ... including the addition of the High Arctic area. Alaska Beacon is part of States Newsroom ...