It’s rugged and raw, challenging to reach and equally tricky to traverse, but it can also be incredibly rewarding. “It’s as wild and remote a place as you can find in North America,” said Peter ...

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s rugged and raw, challenging to reach and equally tricky to traverse, but it can also be incredibly rewarding. “It’s as ...

"The Ambler Road to speculation is the last thing the people and wildlife of the Brooks Range need, and it is good see the Biden administration looking carefully at the actual costs of this bad idea" ...

In historic move, Secretary Haaland announced that the Bureau of Land Management intends to halt proposed Ambler industrial mining road through the Brooks Range of Northwest Alaska. Washington DC – ...

In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge you learn the meaning of ‘alone’ pretty quick. Here’s what it’s like to explore the tundra. But by rafting the Kongakut River on the North Slope of Brooks ...

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

As I sit in my window seat on the ice-class vessel Ultramarine, surrounded by Arctic mountains and sheets of ice, I’m struck by the uselessness of humans in the ecosystem. What is our purpose? None at ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Photographer Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to Alaska for The Washington Post ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Aarhus University and the ...