The distance between them is just less than three miles and one of the island apiece is territory of the US and Russia. Russia has Big Diomede, which was home to a military base during the Second ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts ...

Thomas Flyer won the New York to Paris race against the world in 1908 with a bike on the hood because it needed two ...

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

The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait are separated by the International Date Line with Big ... More Diomede Island ...

The funding will cover this year's operations of the Sikuliaq, an ice-capable ship used for research cruises around Alaska.

A jet skier who went missing in Cook Strait last month has now been named. Andrew David Walker, 68, of Paraparaumu, did not arrive at Plimmerton, north of Wellington, on his jetski as expected on 3 ...

Bluebridge has announced it will buy a newer ship to replace its 28-year-old Cook Strait ferry. The company currently sails its Strait Feronia and Connemara ferries through the route between the ...

StraitNZ Chief Executive Shane McMahon says the privately held Bluebridge is delighted to have secured this high-quality vessel as part of its continued commitment to upgrade services for customers ...

The team estimates that those two groups split about 34 million years ago, a timeline that doesn't quite add up with the land-bridge idea, as clear routes from the Americas via the Bering Strait ...