A few minutes into "The Ballad of Bering Strait," a young man with a banjo finger-picks "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," an Earl Scruggs tune that is the flashiest and most famous ever written for the ...

The narrow channel of water that separates Alaska from Russia is a little bigger than it used to be, new analysis shows. A research project found that the Bering Strait is at least a meter deeper on ...

The Bering Land Bridge once connected Russia to Alaska and was a crossing point for some of the first humans to populate the Americas. But during certain periods, the bridge was either impassable or ...

Downtown Nome and part of Norton Sound are seen from the air on Sept. 29, 2020. Nome is the biggest community in House District 39, which sprawls across the Bering Strait region and includes part of ...

This map illustrates the geography of Beringia, the land bridge that formed between North America and Asia during the last glaciation. The first humans to arrive in America likely crossed Beringia. A ...

A Bering Sea spotted seal is seen in May of 1979. Research by a UAF graduate student is examining microplastics found in the stomachs of spotted seals harvested by subsistence hunters. (Photo by Budd ...

Soar above the vast, wild, and untamed waters of the Bering Sea with this captivating drone video. This aerial journey reveals the dramatic, stormy convergence of the Pacific and Arctic oceans at the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An international agency that sets standards for marine safety has approved two-way shipping routes into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait. The International Maritime ...

NPR's Renee Montagne reports on the country band Bering Strait. These six, classically-trained musicians from outside Moscow are also well-practiced bluegrass and country musicians. Their love for the ...

Please note, this article features an image of human remains. Recently, researchers suggested that ancient Americans migrated from Siberia to the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge about 35,000 years ...

A top Russian official is promoting the construction of a “Putin-Trump” rail tunnel under the Bering Strait to connect Russia and the United States, an idea that President Trump called “interesting.” ...

Attacks by Yemeni Houthi rebels on merchant ships in the Red Sea have hit world trade. Between November and December 2023, the number of containers travelling through the Red Sea each day fell by 60% ...