WASHINGTON - The Interior Department said Friday it approved Shell Oil Co.'s plan to respond to potential oil spills in the Chukchi Sea, bringing the company closer to drilling off the northern coast ...

I stood on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, at the far northern rim of Alaska. On that late May evening, a maze of shifting ice spilled off to the horizon; a world of the same stretched beyond that, more ...

Ice-clogged seas eight to 10 months every year. An ancient, indigenous people living on Alaska's North Slope who hunt local Bowhead whale. Marine mammals, deep-sea coral and Greenpeace. The Arctic ...

This article originally appeared at KNOM.org and is republished here with permission. Through the weekend of Nov. 13, ice extent in the Chukchi Sea was well above the month’s average of the last 30 ...

The very first tally of the Chukchi Sea polar bears has just been published, and here’s the big takeaway: Despite a decline in their sea ice habitat, for now the bears are doing well. In a study ...

The Obama administration is being at least somewhat more cautious this time around in allowing Royal Dutch Shell to drill in the Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea. The company must keep its drills from ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The only company to drill an exploratory oil well in Alaska's Chukchi Sea following a 2008 federal lease sale confirmed Tuesday it has relinquished nearly all of its leases. Royal ...

There is danger lurking on the floor of the Bering and Chukchi seas for mussels, snails, clams, worms and other cold-water invertebrates, according to a new study led by National Oceanic and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Department of Interior said Tuesday that it has affirmed corrections to an environmental analysis of a 2008 Arctic Ocean petroleum lease sale that brought in $2.7 billion ...

A polar bear walks on ice after pulling iself out of the Chukchi Sea on June 14, 2014. Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this April 17, 2015, file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil ...