A basket star is seen on the Alaska seafloor. If ocean warming continues on its current trajectory, marine life at the bottom of the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea will look a lot different in the ...

The traveler’s pipe dream — the ability to travel across 3/4ths of the globe, from the bottom of Chile to the top of Canada, down through Russia, into Asia, dipping into Europe, then down the ...

She sailed in and around Bering Strait — the narrow passage between Alaska and Russia — a few years ago. Aboard a research ship, she sampled small patches of sea water deep beneath the surface.

The Bering Bridge is a section of land that goes across the Bering between Alaska and Russia. While it is deep underwater today, that was not the case in the past. This land bridge is believed to ...

The Bering Strait separates the Chukchi Sea, ... But in 2018, the average bottom water temperature was about 1.5°, signaling the absence of a cold pool that year.

Ice would only have blocked the strait to a depth of 20 to 50 feet in the beginning so it is not by any means impossible to accomplish the same thing. Even a fence would do it. Chris Coles ...

Alaska's Bering Strait may play a critical role in the regulation of the global climate — including a knack for maintaining the Atlantic Ocean "conveyor belt" that bathes northern Europe in eon ...

The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169 degrees 43' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168 ...

Since bottom water temperatures have been warming drastically across the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas over the last few years, cysts are now growing locally in Arctic waters.

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.