across Norton Sound in the Bering Sea, to Nome. Those cities are about 145 miles (233km) apart. The NTSB says the aircraft had been equipped with a “TKS ice protection system” composed of ...

The Bering Air flight that recently crashed in sea ice off Alaska ... the maximum gross takeoff weight for any flight operation under the APE III flight manual supplement," according to the ...

The waters between these territories fall under international jurisdiction ... capable of navigating through the region’s treacherous sea ice. For months, news headlines have reported on ...

For much of the year, sea ice clings to the ... and where rock isn’t hidden under the ice sheet. In some places, that rock contains critical minerals, such as gold, as well as other rare metals ...

However, the new administration, under Pete Hegseth, secretary of the department ... a role in national and international security. Given the melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait is ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under ... before the Bering Sea froze ...

I don’t know how I keep hold of the ice ax, but I manage to swing it wildly as my head is going under. The pick sinks ... more than 7,000 square miles. The Bering Glacier is the nation’s ...

Just three years prior, the Bering Sea experienced a “gold rush” of snow crabs ... Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Bering Sea experienced a startling lack of sea ice in 2018 and 2019, ...

The swift thawing of Arctic ice caps stands out as a clear result of climate change. Higher temperatures worldwide have sped up this process. It affects ecosystems, sea levels ... This event, often ...

When the effects of changing subglacial water pressure were included in the model, the amount of ice flowing into the ocean ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.