While Russia and the United States of America may seem far apart on the global map, their closest point ... is found between two islands in the Bering Strait known as the Diomede Islands, located ...

The Inuit on Little Diomede are watched over by Russian soldiers. But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands ...

Putin delivered his speech to a conference on the Arctic in Murmansk, a port from which the NSR runs eastward across the top of Russia to the Bering Strait near Alaska. He said Murmansk's port ...

The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US soldiers were a familiar sight in Norwegian garrison towns north of the Arctic ...

Michael] Humans want to know about the world around them ... humans first came here from Asia across the Bering Strait during the Ice Age. As the ice sheets melted to open up an ice-free corridor ...

Fish species from warmer waters were showing up in fishing nets ... be shipwrecks and fuel spills. “The Bering Strait will be the new choke point for world shipping,” Coast Guard Adm.

And they just might enjoy an entertaining lumberjack show ... world's largest ZipRider. (Or, play it safe and plan to take that ride down the mountain before lunch.) The waters surrounding Icy ...

Because of the Aleutians' location in the Pacific Ring of Fire – one of the world's most seismically ... also migrated across what is now the Bering Strait: Russians. And as relations between ...

In a surprise announcement, Iran agreed to talks with the U.S. amid concerns over its nuclear program with fears it could ...