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 Aleutian chain, made up of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones, stretches more than 1,600 kilometers from the Alaskan mainland toward Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

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 ...

In Nome, Alaska, a cadre of tinkerers and partisans keeps aiding Ukraine These volunteers won’t let go of the cause as Russia’s war on Ukraine enters a fourth year. They’ve sent ambulances ...

And in 1741, Vitus Bering successfully crossed the strait that bears his name and sighted Mt. Saint Elias, near what is now the village of Yakutat, Alaska.

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.

The Arctic Countries Concerns Russian submarine K-561 Kazan. Russian Navy Photo U.S. and U.K. concern about Russian submarine activity in the Arctic and North Atlantic has steadily been on the rise.

The clock is ticking, and the West is on thin ice. 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 ...

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 ...