Confronting her greatest fears is something that the Berkeley native has done time and again while swimming in some of the world’s most challenging and unforgiving waters.

How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.

Little Diomede, which was sold by the Russians to America along with the rest of Alaska in 1867, has been the American sentinel on the Bering Strait ever since the cold war.

Native American news roundup, March 9-14, 2025 Sign at the entrance of Haskell Indian Nations University, a public tribal land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, founded in 1884.

Native American DNA, consisting of Haplogroup Q, has been specifically linked to Central Siberia and Central Asia.

While the ships are free to pass through the Bering Strait, its 55-mile width means that any spills would be likely to drift toward Alaska communities.

(Tribune News Service) — The war in Ukraine appears to be driving a sharp increase in shipments of Russian oil to China through the Bering Strait, prompting new warnings that the traffic ...

The crossing of the Bering Strait from Asia to North America is the stuff of legends. Geographically, it’s a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the ...

The Indigenous village of Diomede sits in the middle of the Bering Strait, on the American side. (U.S. Coast Guard/Richard Brahm) The war in Ukraine appears to be driving a sharp increase in ...

Though it was long assumed that Native Americans descended from Siberians who crossed over the Bering Strait’s ephemeral land bridge, more recent genetic, geological, and archeological evidence ...