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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR, pronounced as “ ANN-warr ”) or Arctic Refuge is a national wildlife refuge in northeastern Alaska, United States, on traditional Iñupiaq and Gwich'in lands. The refuge is 19,286,722 acres (78,050.59 km 2) of the Alaska North Slope region, with a northern coastline and vast inland forest, taiga ...
Decades-long political and legal battles over drilling in America’s largest wildlife refuge took another turn when the Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic ...
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ( ANILCA) is a United States federal law signed by President Jimmy Carter on December 2, 1980. [1] ANILCA provided varying degrees of special protection to over 157,000,000 acres (64,000,000 ha) of land, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, wild and scenic ...
Coordinates: 69°52′27″N 144°09′55″W. ANWR and known oil deposits in northern Alaska. The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since 1977. [1] As of 2017, Republicans have attempted to allow drilling in ANWR almost fifty times ...
The climate crisis, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is warming the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the world Biden bans drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge due to climate ...
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 1.5-million-acre (600,000-hectare) coastal plain, which lies along the Beaufort Sea on Alaska’s northeastern edge, is seen as sacred by the Indigenous ...
(Reuters) -An Alaska state agency on Wednesday sued the Biden administration over its decision to cancel oil and gas leases in the state’s North Slope, one of the country's largest reserves of ...
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 ...