In a move applauded by WWF, the US Department of the Interior has announced the proposed designation of almost 52 million hectares of key polar bear habitat across Alaska. The requirement for the ...

More than 187,000 square miles -- an area larger than California -- will be set aside as critical habitat for threatened polar bears in the Alaska Arctic, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced ...

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — Alaska’s fight against burdensome seal protections continued ...

While researchers in Alaska this summer used high-tech submersibles and huge ships to plumb the deep-ocean depths in search of new species, a team of scuba diving scientists working from an Alaska ...

An Alaska federal judge ruled Friday against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to designate 187,000 square miles of protected critical habitat -- an area larger than California -- for Alaska's ...

To guide habitat acquisition for species negatively affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, I quantified habitat use of Black Oystercatchers (Haematopus bachmani) breeding in Prince William Sound, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A federal judge in Alaska has thrown out a plan designating more than 187,000 square miles as habitat for threatened polar bears. U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline, in a ...

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — The State of Alaska sued to reverse the National Marine Fisheries ...

Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...