New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska — This tiny island in the middle of the Bering Sea had recently completed its longest winter stretch in recorded history with above-freezing temperatures — 343 ...

Oceanography, Vol. 24, No. 3, The Changing Arctic Ocean: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (2007–2009) (SEPTEMBER 2011), pp. 250-265 (16 pages) ...

Bering Air Plane Vanishes from Tracker Map over Alaska Published Feb 07, 2025 at 6:31 AM EST Updated Jun 03, 2025 at 8:47 AM EDT By Barney Henderson ...

The flight, operated by Bering Air, was traveling from Unalakleet to Nome in Western Alaska, when its position was lost about 12 miles offshore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

NOAA hydrographic profile data collected in the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Gulf of Alaska over the past five decades – primarily under the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program ...

The Bering Air flight was traveling from the village of Unalakleet to Nome when it was reported missing at around 4 p.m. local time Thursday, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety ...

The mangled wreckage of a plane with 10 bodies inside was found on Friday near the western coast of Alaska and is believed to be the aircraft that vanished the day before, a spokesman for the U.S ...

An earlier action by President Barack Obama in 2016 established a Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, with protections that put about half of the region off-limits to oil and gas leasing.