The Diomede Islands, located in the Bering Strait between Russia and the United States, are home to one of the most fascinating and unique time zone anomalies in the world. These two islands, Diomede ...

In this fascinating video, we explore the bold and controversial plan to build a massive highway connecting Russia and Alaska, potentially linking Asia and North America via the Bering Strait.

In October 2024, the US Coast Guard spotted two Chinese maritime enforcement vessels operating alongside a pair of Russian border patrol boats as they transited the Bering Sea, just kilometers ...

Highway to the Flyway Because Nome is close to the Bering Strait, the area attracts birds that come to nest on the tundra or that are migrating to the North Slope or Russia. Nome is also convenient to ...

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2025 While Russia and the United States of America may seem far apart on the global map, their closest point is just 2.4 miles (approximately 3.8 kilometres) apart.

Russia and the US might feel like two places that are worlds apart, but sitting in the middle of the Bering Strait are two tiny islands that prove otherwise. With just 3.8 kilometers (2.4 miles ...

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.

A rough map released by a pro-Kremlin blogger on Sunday purported to show how a formation of Russian and Chinese nuclear-capable bombers circled the U.S. coast off Alaska last week.

China has tested U.S. legal consistency with UNCLOS by sending navy vessels within 12 nautical miles of the Aleutian Islands off Alaska and bordering the southern edge of the Bering Strait without ...

A map showing how Beringia, which includes the famous ice age land bridge, looked at the last glacial maximum, about 18,000 years ago. (Image credit: Bond, J.D. 2019. Paleodrainage map of Beringia.

The U.S. State Department this month announced results of a two-decade program to map the extended continental shelf areas beyond the nation’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone. Much of the focus was ...

United States ocean territory could expand by an area more than twice the size of California, with most of that in ocean areas off Alaska, under a claim being prepared by the federal government. The U ...