The issue pits a multibillion-dollar industry against Western Alaska subsistence communities struggling with record-low ...
Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...
That sum, amounting to just $138 million in today’s dollars, brought to an end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and its expansion across the treacherous Bering Sea, which at one point ...
and that is one of the risk factors that tribal organizations are seeking to manage through the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Vivian Korthuis, ...
Seven of the eight Arctic Council members (all but Russia) promptly decided to boycott meetings over the war and only met ...
Trump, in his first term, issued an executive order that sought to overturn Obama actions that barred leasing in most of Alaska’s offshore Arctic. The executive order also revoked the Northern Bering ...
and this comes at a time when the weather patterns over the sea that separates Alaska from Russia appear to be changing. “The passage of extratropical cyclone Merbok through the Bering Sea in ...
The season runs through May. Alaska Department of Fish and Game area management biologist Ethan Nichols said nine vessels are actively participating in the Bering Sea commercial fishery.
The bones belonged to dozens of hunted species, the institute said, including woolly mammoths. The skeletons of at least 13 mammoths were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers ...
That sum, amounting to just $138 million in today’s dollars, brought to an end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and its expansion across the treacherous Bering Sea, which at one point extended the ...