The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is more than a remote patch of tundra — it is a crucible where nature, energy, and politics collide in breathtaking and often dramatic fashion.

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 ...

In 1960, then-Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton issued an order describing the boundary of the Arctic National Wildlife Range, which was later renamed a refuge. In the order, he described the ...

Wildlife in front of the peaks of the Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, June 20, 2019. By Daniel L. Sosland PUBLISHED: June 4, 2023 at 5:21 AM EDT ...

The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest contiguous river refuge in the continental U.S., spanning 261 river miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois.

ONALASKA, Wis. (WXOW) -- The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge is celebrating 100 years of conservation. The refuge is 261 miles long, spanning from Wabasha, Minnesota all of the ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the northeast corner of Alaska is a breathtaking and ecologically vital landscape. Most importantly, it is ground zero for climate change.

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

Two previous attempts at selling oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge didn’t see much progress. While the first sale in 2021 saw “ low interest ,” another in January ...

The Biden administration announced Wednesday its largest habitat protection move yet: the cancellation of seven remaining oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain and ...

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it will cancel seven Trump-era oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and protect more than 13 million acres in the federal National ...