
Without luck, I’ve tried to find a mine that hasn’t destroyed its environment
Summer is a busy season for mining companies. That is at least the impression I got after the Swedis ...

Summer is a busy season for mining companies. That is at least the impression I got after the Swedis ...

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Bancroft Gem and Mineral Club is holding its annual Gem and Mineral Show on July 27 at the Bancroft Fish and Game Club at 27602 Hwy 62 from…

Coastal Connections Camp About Coastal Connections Camp (CCC) is a “Camp-In-A Box” summer program designed for middle school students in Alaska’s coastal communities. Guided by th…

North of Fairbanks, hundreds of workers at Alaska’s biggest gold mine dig up, haul, crush and grind thousands of tons of ore each day, year-round. The sprawling Fort Knox mine consumes $40 million worth of power every year — more than any other business in the state, and some 16% of the power produced by...

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Amid growing Norwegian concern for Chinese threats, the COSLProspector prepares for drilling at 71° North in the Barents Sea. 'China has a long-term plan to establish itself in the Arctic,' a Norwegian professor at the Norwegian Military Academy says.

Only few days after someone vandalised company machinery, an armed person made it into one of the north Swedish iron miner's drill sites.

The move is "a monumental step forward in the fight for Indigenous rights and environmental justice," a tribal leader said before the decision was final. The Biden administration on Friday blocked the construction of an industrial road that would have opened up access for mining in the Alaskan wilderness, earning praise from campaigners who said...

Greenpeace says wannabe Taranaki seabed miner Trans-Tasman Resources is likely banking on Christopher Luxon’s fast-track process to side-step proper scrutiny of its Taranaki seabed mining proposal by bailing out of…
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This summer, Alaska Sea Grant offered an educational camp for middle school-aged children in Southcentral Alaska focused on deepening an understanding and appreciation of the coastal environment. The Coastal Connections Camp encourages exploration and natural curiosity, while reaching an age group that is typically underserved in summer programming. Campers discovered macroinvertebrates and other life in local streams,...

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Skyrocketing energy prices and the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine are encouraging some global leaders to expand hydrocarbon production in the Arctic. If this goes ahead, it would be a disaster.

(Anchorage) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy denounces the Biden Administration’s request for suspension of the Ambler Road right-of-way as yet another federal attempt to block economic and natural resource development with unfounded environmental claims, despite the project receiving a robust federal environmental review. Under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), Alaska was...

Today the Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Trans Tasman Resources’ (TTR) appeal of a 2018 High Court ruling which quashed the EPA’s decision in 2017 to give the Australian-led miners…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In today’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) slammed the Trump administration for ignoring more than a decade of scientific analysis on the devastating impacts the proposed Pebble Mine will have on Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon fishery. Cantwell has been vocal about the disaster that the Pebble Mine would bring...