Two nuclear icebreakers are making way for a tanker and two cargo ships in this year's first transit shipment on the Russian ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

The October transit, which China said continued through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean, came less than three months after the first joint flight of Chinese and Russian strategic bombers ...

For Trump, expansion in the Arctic can be a way to resell cheap energy or buy minerals and rare earth metals from Russia, experts said. Cooperation with Russia would also be a way to stave off the ...

As relations between the US and Russia come under increased international focus, we explore a windswept, geologically tumultuous island whose history has been shaped by both nations. Situated ...

Part of the Aleutian Islands, a 1,100-mile volcanic archipelago that curves in a westward arc to within 600 miles of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Unalaska features one of the harshest ...

NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of Alaska, just before it hits the narrow strait dividing America from the Russian Far East, Rolland Trowbridge is holding a contraption he designed ...

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the US 150 years ago is ... Vitus Bering successfully crossed the strait that bears his name and ... Kenai Peninsula and ...

The project would include a tunnel under the Bering Strait and connect to the contiguous US via Wales, Alaska. Proposals to build a crossing predate the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war .

Russia is an Arctic nation that’s so vast ... “Based on the Kola Peninsula in the ... “Maritime traffic through the Bering Strait and Northern Sea Route is increasing because of receding ...

Just how important the Arctic is to Russia in terms of maintaining its threatening nuclear posture toward the U.S. cannot be overstated. In a nuclear exchange, Moscow would likely fire long-range ...

It is in the north of the Bering Strait, a waterway separating Russia's Chukchi Peninsula to the west and Alaska to the east, connecting the Pacific Ocean to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the ...