Episode Summary Cooper Freeman, Alaska director for the Center for Biological Diversity, returns to the Rewilding Earth podcast and joins host Jack Humphrey

A fast-track proposal to develop a gold mine near Alaska’s Cook Inlet and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is alarming scientists, environmental groups and local communities because of the devast...

In 2022, the State of Alaska created a bear-control program in the Wood-Tikchik basin, hiring State employees and contractors to aerially gun down nearly 200 bears from helicopters and spotting planes...

The permit allowing a new road and an expanded airstrip fails to protect key habitat for endangered Cook Inlet belugas, the lawsuit says.

Center for Biological Diversity: Gold Mining Exploration Threatens Lake Clark National Park, Beluga Critical Habitat

Battery recycling provides economic, national security, and environmental benefits. But the United States is playing catch-up to Asian countries, particularly China.

Alaska has killed more than 200 bears as part of its "intensive management" program intended to help a caribou herd.

Alaskan state representatives will visit Japan this month to court investors for a natural gas project President Donald Trump says could pump trillions of dollars into the U.S., but Japanese energy firms remain sceptical of the project's feasibility.

Cooper Freeman works to protect Alaska’s wildlife, lands and oceans. Before joining the Center for Biological Diversity, he worked with Alaskan Native Tribes

The Republican said the state is poised to develop its energy resources under President Donald Trump.

The agency study found women are harassed twice as often as men, while less than half of all incidents are reported.

A study that would use commercial-style trawl gear in a part of the Bering Sea where bottom trawling is banned has sparked criticism.

Ever wonder what life is like when your office is a large floating marine laboratory? Our photo gallery highlights some of the incredible sights and scenes from the 2024 Bottom Trawl Survey season.

Less than 4 inches of new snow has fallen in Anchorage since the beginning of December.

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Salary Range: Staff Attorney: $69,000 - $85,000; Senior Attorney: $85,000 - $125,000 Location:  This is a remote position. Applicants residing anywhere in Alaska strongly preferred and will be given p...

The recent buy is just the latest influx of cash to Alaska’s seafood industry from the federal government.

Center for Biological Diversity: ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Department of the Interior published a decision today denying an extension of offshore oil and gas leases for the Liberty Unit in the Beaufort S...

President Biden has failed to protect America’s ocean ecosystems, despite his professed goal of protecting 30 percent of the nation’s oceans by 2030, due to his prioritization of local …

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is once again taking aim at wolves, brown bears, and black bears — right on the borders of Denali and Lake Clark national parks. Tell Alaska take bears and wolve...

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s commitment could allow a pipeline developer to complete up to $50 million in engineering studies in hopes that an initial in-state gas line is ...

Last year, environmentalists criticized the Biden Administration for approving a large oil drilling project on public land in the Alaskan Arctic called the Willow project. However, a similar petroleum...

The first day with no sea ice in the Arctic will be a visible sign of climate change. This work reveals that this could occur before 2030 already and becomes more likely as the world warms. As the ice...

Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is one of the most ecologically important areas in the United States. Now the refuge faces a devastating threat from a proposed road that would cut through i...

There is no replacement for the CDQ program, and harm to it would come at a severe cost.