I stood on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, at the far northern rim of Alaska. On that late May evening, a maze of shifting ice spilled off to the horizon; a world of the same stretched beyond that ...

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 ...

The Chukchi Sea has one of the highest rates of sea ice loss in the Arctic, but the polar bears there don’t appear to be suffering as a result. A new study from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Royal Dutch Shell on Monday was moving its drill ship off a prospect in the Chukchi Sea, a day after drilling began 70 miles off the Alaska coast because sea ice was moving ...

WASHINGTON - Shell began boring its first well in the Chukchi Sea in more than two decades on Sunday, kicking off what company executives anticipate will be years of work tapping prospects ...

Living off one of the richest oceans in the Arctic, the polar bears by the Chukchi Sea appear to be thriving. Females are in good health and give birth to healthy cubs. Overall, this Alaskan ...

There are good reasons to doubt that the Obama administration should let Royal Dutch Shell have another try at drilling for oil this summer in the Chukchi Sea, 70 miles off Alaska's northern coast.

The Bering Sea is part of the North Pacific Ocean south of the Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia, while the Chukchi Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean just north of the strait.

Shell paid $2.1 billion for leases in the Chukchi Sea in 2008. Shell won approval for two exploration wells in the Beaufort Sea, ranging from 16 to 23 miles offshore, in October. ‘A key ...

A new joint effort by American and Russian scientists will offer new insights into the behavior and movements of walruses around the northern Chukchi Sea. But before the walruses can be tracked ...

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 ...