The first Soviet officials to cross the Bering Strait to the United States since J. Edgar Hoover closed this border 40 years ago arrived Wednesday to a flag-waving welcome by Alaskan Eskimos. &#822… ...

The first person to swim the deadly Bering Strait has words of warning for an international relay team of ice swimmers hoping to stroke 86 miles from Russia to the United States in body-numbing ...

A Bering Strait crossing is hardly a new idea—in fact, it’s been batted around for well over a century. In 1905, Czar Nicholas II approved a plan for a railway tunnel, though the idea soon ...

The project would include a tunnel under the Bering Strait and connect to the contiguous US via Wales, Alaska. Proposals to build a crossing predate the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war .

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, ...

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 Diomede Islands, located in the Bering Strait, are a unique geographic and political anomaly, lying just a few kilometers apart but divided by the international border between Russia and the ...

A bridge or a tunnel across the Bering Strait, a narrow body of water lying between American Alaska and Russian Chukotka, is an old idea that dates back to the late 19th century.

The Bering Land Bridge once connected Russia to Alaska and was a crossing point for some of the first humans to populate the ... Successive waves of people streamed across the Bering Strait, ...

The two islands are often mentioned as likely intermediate stops for the hypothetical bridge or tunnel - the Bering Strait crossing - spanning the Strait.. Big Diomede Island was traditionally the ...

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 ...