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If you were to hike across the North Slope 75 million years ago, you would think you were in a Louisiana bayou, writes.
With the ongoing process of rejuvenating downtown Anchorage, two murals have been put up on the vacant Nordstrom building.
On June 10, Bill Armstrong told Petroleum News that 500 to 800 million barrels of recoverable oil is his estimate for the Sockeye discovery on the Lagniappe block on Alaska- s eastern North Slope.
Drilling at the Stibium prospect is focused on delivering a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for both gold and antimony ...
Late last month, a volunteer expedition led by a number of Alaskans recovered a 150-year-old bell from one of the state's most notorious shipwrecks. The Star of Bengal went down near Coronation Island ...
The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management has proposed rescinding a rule put in place last year that added new restrictions on oil and gas development in the National Petroleum ...
The bizarre geological structure can be seen on Google Maps in a rocky area of Alberta ... There is a few other aerial art carvings/mounds in deserts that are man-made. Osvaldo Soberanis posted online ...
My late and sharp-minded friend Art Chance (Recommended reading for every Alaska candidate, Red on Blue: Establishing Republican Governance, Art Chance) put it best: the moment your hand comes off ...
The US Department of Interior has announced its plan this week to pursue the reopening of 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to leasing and energy project development as well as mining.
Because nothing says “cultural exchange” quite like combining Russian folk art with ichthyology ... But the crown jewel of this section has to be the wall of vintage Alaska maps. All that glitters isn ...
Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash ...
She has covered fashion, culture, art and music extensively ... Wisconsin and New York. Alaska towers over all the other states with its staggering number of lakes—around 3.2 million in total.