Polar bear crossing through Arctic waters

Help save the Arctic from oil drilling! As you read this, big oil corporations are just a few steps away from drilling in sensitive Arctic waters, and possibly even under — and eventually in — the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, if all goes their way. Time is critical because several decisions affecting the fate of these extraordinary Arctic lands and waters could be made any day. Region:  Alaska Read more

Another victory in the Arctic!  The Arctic Ocean’s pristine waters and abundant wildlife are safe from drilling for another year. Shell Oil announced Feb. 3 that it has abandoned its plans to drill an exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea several miles off the coast of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2011. Region:  Alaska Read more

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Brendan O'Brien.

For 50 years the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been a place of untrammeled beauty, an untouched Eden in the last frontier. But that tranquility is again under attack from short-sighted politicians in Washington that want to spoil the crown jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System with roads and oil drills. The Arctic Refuge has been under constant threat from oil drilling, threatening the caribou, polar bears, and native Gwich’in people that call the Refuge their home. Read more