AP – Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says the state is suing to overturn the federal suspension of offshore drilling in Arctic Ocean waters.

AFP – Shipowners are showing growing interest in a fabled trade route to Asia which climate change is beginning to open up at last as polar ice recedes.

AFP – Four Greenpeace activists climbed onto an Arctic oil rig Tuesday and halted drilling in a bid to pressure Britain’s Cairn Energy to stop operations off Greenland’s coast, the group said.

AP – At a celebration of BP’s centennial last October, CEO Tony Hayward boasted to guests that the oil company “lives on the frontiers of the energy industry.”

AFP – BP has scrapped plans to drill in the Arctic, where a new oil rush is expected, amid fears such a move would be “political madness” after the Gulf oil spill, the Guardian newspaper said Thursday.

AFP – BP has scrapped plans to drill in the Arctic, where a new oil rush is expected, amid fears such a move would be “political madness” after the Gulf oil spill, Britain’s Guardian daily said Thursday.

AP – ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE: Scotland’s Cairn Energy PLC has found gas off the west coast of Greenland, a discovery that environmental group Greenpeace warns could lead to a damaging rush for hydrocarbons in “vulnerable” Arctic waters.

AFP – Greenpeace said Monday its activists had arrived in the Arctic on board one of its ships to pressure Britain’s Cairn Energy to stop oil operations off Greenland’s fragile coast.

AFP – At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharp change in temperature, researchers said in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wild animals.

WASHINGTON, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA’s first dedicated oceanographic field campaign goes to sea June 15 to take an up-close look at how changing conditions in the Arctic are affecting the ocean’s chemistry and ecosystems that play a critical role in global climate change. (Logo: http:/