Tag: Alaska

  • BP Pipeline Sprays Oil-Gas Mixture on 33 Acres of Alaskan Tundra

    If you already thought BP was unfit to handle its own oil, an incident this week in Alaska won’t change that opinion…

  • Another Developer Pulls Investment From Controversial Pebble Mine Project

    Plans to dig a massive open-pit gold and copper mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay continue to falter. Yesterday, the latest axe fell when mining goliath Rio Tinto joined other major investors in deciding to withdrawal its 19 percent share from the project. [caption id="attachment_329862" align="alignnone" width="450"] In Sept. 2013, Anglo American announced it was withdrawing…

  • Rare Alaskan Wolves Considered for Endangered Species Act Listing

    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago wolves may need protection under the Endangered Species Act because of unsustainable logging in the Tongass National Forest and elsewhere in southeast Alaska. The agency will now conduct an in-depth status review of this rare subspecies of gray wolf, which lives only in…

  • Slideshow: Celebrating Denali National Park’s 97th Birthday

    Today marks Alaska’s Denali National Park—originally called Mount McKinley National Park by Congress—97th birthday. The wildlife and rugged terrain that first made it a cause celebré for the conservation movement remain as striking as ever. [blackoutgallery id=”323202″] Modern-day Denali National Park and Preserve draws around 400,000 visitors per year, and it isn’t hard to see why.…

  • Court Denies Offshore Oil Drilling Lease Sale in Arctic

    Yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Department of the Interior violated the law when it opened almost 30 million acres of the outer continental shelf in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska to oil and gas drilling. [caption id="attachment_318994" align="alignnone" width="500"] Icebergs in the high Arctic. Photo credit: Wikimedia[/caption] The court…