Eskimo's along Alaska's North Slope have come to accept oil wells on land, but as oil companies press to drill offshore Eskimo leaders remain defiant, saying their whaling tradition is more important.

A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring the Navy from using a type of sonar during a military exercise off Hawaii, saying that activists showed the sonar might harm whales and dolphins.

Grist magazine examines the close race for governor in California, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Democratic rival are using the environment as campaign weapons.