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 ...

Thousands of gray whales are migrating past the Oregon coast in poor condition, with record-low calf numbers and visible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 seal scat is also scientific gold for another Antarctic researcher ... really cool in that they can find all these cracks and holes and breathe and go under the sea ice, whereas the things that ...

Located under the “Auroral Oval,” Fairbanks ... but its location on the Bering Sea makes it a hidden gem. The town is steeped in history, famous for its gold rush days, and offers a unique Alaskan ...

Arctic sea ice typically reaches ... a joint exercise in the Bering Sea off Alaska. Russia and China also staged a bomber patrol near the Alaska coast. Under Article 5 of the North Atlantic ...

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