Three major oil companies have abandoned drilling plans off Alaska for the time being, either suspending exploratory efforts indefinitely or scuttling them completely pending furth...

Caroline Cannon, winner of the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize, has not rested in her fight to save her Inupiat community and their way of life from Arctic oil drilling ...

Royal Dutch Shell has suspended exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska for the current season, though it will continue to start wells by digging as many “top holes” as ...

Not even Xena the Warrior Princess could save the Arctic from deep-sea drilling, although a possibly encroaching ice floe has staved Royal Dutch Shell off for the time being...

A panel convened at Oxford University has issued a strong statement about the condition of the world's oceans now and for the foreseeable future...

Environmentalists reacted strongly to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announcement on Thursday August 30 that Shell has been granted permission to do limi...

Native Americans have won a small victory in their fight against Royal Dutch Shell and its attempt at deep-sea drilling. The appeals board of the U.S...

The general public has not seen images of Shell Oil Co.'s Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, on site off the coast of Alaska, and a sense of the rig's proximity to protected lands ha...