A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination long before it had a place on the Russian map ... of Bering's second-in-command, Aleksei Chirikov, reached Prince of Wales Island.

A rough map released by a pro-Kremlin ... time Chinese warplanes had approached Alaska—came within 200 miles of the U.S.