Imagine a world where borders were just agreements on taxes. In 1326, two powers agreed to tax the Sami people from both sides. This “marchland” deal lasted for centuries without actual lines. The ...
Origins : introduction and environmental overview -- Encounters : prehistory and early history to 1500 CE -- Incursions : 1500 to 1800 -- Crusades : 1800 to 1914 -- Subjugations : 1914 to 1945 -- ...
China has claimed a milestone in Arctic exploration as it conducted the first manned deep-sea dive in the ice-covered waters of the region, an emerging zone of global competition. Newsweek has ...
The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region’s future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, ...
Alaska’s state-owned investment bank could get permission to start oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as the third quarter of this year, according to court documents ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-led grassroots organization filed a lawsuit today seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and ...
An oil rig en route to an oil exploration effort in the Alaskan Arctic toppled onto the tundra. Credit: Doyon Drilling photo via the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation When ConocoPhillips ...
A state development agency might consider doing some oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next winter, following a federal judge’s ruling Tuesday that the Biden administration ...