Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. No bids were received in the second congressionally managed oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National ...

Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ranks as one of the wildest places on Earth. In the winter, it’s a haven for some of the last polar bears that traverse land and sea.

Oil companies could buy oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but with new restrictions, under a plan released Wednesday. At least 400,000 acres in the refuge’s coastal plain would ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is an expanse of roughly 19 million acres along the North Slope of Alaska. It’s one of the last truly wild places in the United States.

Part of the US Fish & Wildlife Refuge system, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stretches for 200 miles from the Arctic Ocean into the Brooks Range and the boreal forest of the Yukon River basin.

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

As Kaktovik has seen immense economic and rural growth, leaders in the village see a pathway for oil and gas projects to ...

Arctic Refuge Is One of Earth’s Last Truly Wild Places. Trump Calls it America’s “Biggest Oil Farm.” Some Native leaders and activists foresee a “David and Goliath” battle on the horizon.

Pumping oil from the Arctic Refuge won’t result in lower oil prices, according to the federal Energy Information Administration, and building the necessary infrastructure would take decades. “Drilling ...

Covering 78,000 square kilometers (30,100 square miles) of rolling tundra and wetlands in Alaska's North Slope region, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a haven for an extraordinary variety ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the ...

Katrina Liebich/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Canning River, which flows on the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into the Beaufort Sea, is seen from the air on Aug. 23, 2015.