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Information for this article was contributed by Dan Joling of The Associated Press.

Hillary Clinton, a Democratic hopeful for the US Presidency, has said she would block new permits for Alaskan offshore drilling because of the risk factors involved.

Environmental groups oppose drilling in the Arctic due to the vulnerability of animals already struggling to survive because of melting sea ice, as well as risk that a spill could pose to the region.

Yet that long-term play is suddenly over – or at least on prolonged pause – after Shell announced Monday that several factors led it to abandon the project “for the foreseeable future“.

The Hague-based company originally obtained the necessary licenses to drill in the Chukchi Sea in 2008 when oil prices were more than 0 a barrel.

Ben Potter, an anthropologist from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and colleagues found ancient chum salmon bones from 11,500 years ago at the Upward Sun River site, where excavations also yielded human dwellings, human remains and tools.

This suggests that Ice Age humans were open to eating more than just mammoths.

The interior of Alaska was not glaciated during the last ice age, which was waning as humans migrated into North America, Finney said.

A red-eye turned into a nightmare for several passengers on a flight from Alaska to Portland.

Obama snapped a photo of Denali from Air Force One and posted it on Instagram shortly before meeting with a group of native leaders on the ground.

“And that second is almost upon us”. He’ll then trek through wilderness while being taped for an episode of the NBC show “Running Wild with Bear Grylls”, which tests celebrities on their survival skills. But Obama’s blogging is sending another...

The President exercised his executive power to change Mount McKinley-named for President William McKinley in 1917-back to its native moniker, Denali. The tribes to the south of the mountain have names for it that translate to a big mountain, and the ones to the north have names...

Together, the two climb a bat-infested cave, descend hundreds of feet into a secluded cavern and ultimately wrestle a six-foot crocodile.

Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, opponents of Obama on climate and energy issues, thanked the president and applauded the name change.

“More broadly, these observers view China’s naval capabilities as a key element of an emerging broader Chinese military challenge to the longstanding status of the United States as the leading military power in the Western Pacific”.