Page 30 - Brooks Range News Today

The Biden administration is formally launching its new review of the Ambler road to address what it says were Trump-era deficiencies.

This spring, a small Australian prospecting company sent geologists to a state warehouse to scour old rock collections. The geologists leveled handheld scanners over samples of rock pulled from shelves at the Alaska Geologic Materials Center in Anchorage, drilled in the Cantwell area decades earlier by other mining companies.

Perplexed by shadowy images on a satellite photo, a climate scientist packed up and set out for the Alaskan Arctic. What he found should alarm all of us.

The oil flows more slowly, the climate changes more quickly | Essay

Ecologist Isla Myers-Smith researches how tundra plants respond to climate change and what it means for future ecosystems.

REGIONAL— Bill Rom was sporting a bushy gray beard recently when we sat down to talk on the deck of his Burntside Lake summer residence. It was a sign that his sense of adventure had gotten the …

Although it’s possible to witness the Northern Lights in Alaska from nearly anywhere during aurora season, here are the best places to see the aurora borealis.

The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas said recently that ConocoPhillips Alaska has surrendered five state oil and gas leases and Oil Search (Alaska) and Repsol E&P USA have surrendered 14 leases. The division said in a July 29 surrender of lease that ConocoPhillips Alaska surrendered two leases, ADL 3...

What is it like to be an avalanche specialist? A conservationist? A wilderness traveler? A Buddhist? Brad Meiklejohn is a long time Alaskan who has written a new book titled The Wild Trails that explores these topics and more. Join host Paul Twardock and Brad for this great conversation.

After receiving the first winter storm warning out of anywhere in the U.S. this season, fresh snow has dumped on Alaska in its Brooks Range. It's the first snowfall of the season for a U.S. region and, even though it's in the far north of Alaska,...