Located in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, Wrangel Island is a 7,600 km² enclave, equivalent in size to Crete. It is part of Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous District ...

Polar bears roaming the ice and swimming the waters of the Chukchi Sea have become increasingly exposed over the past decades to a collection of disease pathogens, according to a newly published ...

A polar bear walks on ice after pulling iself out of the Chukchi Sea on June 14, 2014. Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic ...

For the study, scientists focused on a population of polar bears living in the Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Russia. This group of polar bears, like others, is spending more time on land each ...

MOSCOW, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Two pairs of Russian strategic bombers conducted training flights over the neutral waters of the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea on Sunday as part of the Ocean-24 ...

Point Lay is located on the coast of the Chukchi Sea between the west coast of the U.S. and the east coast of Russia. Baby Gorilla at Ohio Zoo Adopted by Elder Female After Mom's Lack of Care 150 ...

Last winter, Mr. Mallett said, winds drove a lot of thicker, older ice westward from north of Greenland to the Beaufort and a neighboring sea, the Chukchi. This summer, that thicker ice thinned ...

(A recent paper estimates that the open Chukchi Sea off Alaska alone ... receding ice exposes the sea to more wind, which can churn warmer, heavier Atlantic water to the surface, melting yet ...

The objective was to take Chukotka, Kamchatka and the Okhotsk Sea coastline. Captain Dmitry Pavlutskiy was sent to help. The commanders were to unite their forces and crush the Chukchi in a ...

Beginning in 2017, temperatures soared in and around the Bering and Chukchi seas. And strong winds blowing from the south began to pick up, pushing the sea ice cover farther north. Sea ice cover ...

Back in the 1980s, the Arctic's Chukchi Sea would have been largely frozen over by early December. But times, and climes, have changed. Local authorities in the Russian village of Ryrkaypiy ...