It’s hard to believe that the barn owl (Tyto alba), the most widely distributed owl over our entire globe, is struggling here ...

Snowy owl sightings have been thrilling people across northern Illinois this winter, but these occasional visitors from the ...

An irregular but popular winter visitor is stirring the interest of Minnesota bird-watchers, wildlife specialists and even the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). Snowy owls, which ...

Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. No bids were received for the second congressionally mandated Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas ...

Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. No bids were received for the second congressionally mandated Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas ...

The U.S. Interior Department on Jan. 8 said no bids were submitted for an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – a sale the state has challenged as too restrictive and at ...

Alaska’s congressional delegation has slammed the Biden administration for wasting taxpayer dollars on what they called a “deliberately doomed” lease sale in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National ...

The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the state has challenged as too ...

Plans to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas have ground to a halt after not a single bid was placed on the land. Grizzly bears are one of the many species that call the ...

“The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along: There are some places too special and sacred to put ...

According to the Department of the Interior's website, the sale is required by the 2017 Tax Act. The deadline to submit bids was Monday, January 6, 2025.