A few minutes into "The Ballad of Bering Strait," a young man with a banjo finger-picks "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," an Earl Scruggs tune that is the flashiest and most famous ever written for the ...

The narrow channel of water that separates Alaska from Russia is a little bigger than it used to be, new analysis shows. A research project found that the Bering Strait is at least a meter deeper on ...

The Bering Land Bridge once connected Russia to Alaska and was a crossing point for some of the first humans to populate the Americas. But during certain periods, the bridge was either impassable or ...

Two kiteboarders hoping to make an unprecedented Bering Strait crossing have abandoned their bid after waiting in Wales for nearly a month for ideal conditions that never materialized. Troy Henkels, ...

Karl Bushby’s 27-year, human-powered journey around the world is nearing its end as he approaches England after crossing ...

A Bering Sea spotted seal is seen in May of 1979. Research by a UAF graduate student is examining microplastics found in the stomachs of spotted seals harvested by subsistence hunters. (Photo by Budd ...

This map illustrates the geography of Beringia, the land bridge that formed between North America and Asia during the last glaciation. The first humans to arrive in America likely crossed Beringia. A ...