Wildlife

Landowner Spike Bicknell has applied to turn the 26 acres near the airport into a motocross park.

Scientists, other officials working on projects related to Arctic contaminants, clean energy, oil spill response, identifying migratory bird breeding grounds, and preventing the influx of ‘invasive alien species’.

Fish and Game biologist Patrick Jones says the animal most likely floated over from the herd on Nunivak Island.

In the years that followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill, some wildlife populations bounced back quickly, while others may never recover. Now, nearly three decades later, scientists are starting to understand why.

A California-sized chunk of the Arctic will remain designated as critical polar bear habitat. That’s the effect of a U.S. Supreme Court order Monday declining to hear an appeal from the state of Alaska, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and an oil industry trade group.

When President Donald Trump signed an order last week lifting his predecessor’s restrictions on offshore leasing in the Arctic, he also revoked a decree that created the “Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area.”