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...

'Warrior Princess’ Lucy Lawless was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay what amounts to $547US ($651NZ) in fines, along with seven fellow protesters who ...

A First Nation whose land sits in the heart of the Alberta oil sands has ramped up its legal battle against the vast industrial development, which has generated controversy because...

The Iñupiat Eskimo community of Wainwright, Alaska is conflicted...

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...

Actress Lucy Lawless, arrested in February after she jumped aboard the drilling ship Noble Discoverer with Greenpeace activists, has pleaded guilty to trespassing and could spend u...

Lucy Lawless, the actress famous for playing the heroine of Xena: Warrior Princess, has joined Greenpeace activists in occupying the drilling ship Noble Discoverer , The Australian...

The Alaska Native group REDOIL has joined with eight environmental groups in an effort to stop a drilling ship from drilling in Arctic waters, the Associated Press reports ...

Upon hearing the announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal appeals board confirming the validity of two air-quality permits for Shell’s Noble Discoverer drills...