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During winter, the Bering Strait has historically been blanketed in ice. But this year, the ice has nearly vanished. "The usually ice-covered Bering Strait is almost completely open water," Zack ...
The only waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean is called the Bering Strait. It has actually been called the gateway to the Arctic. It is a remote passageway that at one point ...
R ussia 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 ...
Thousands of years ago, a stretch of land connected the continents of Asia and North America, in the place the Bering Strait now occupies ... has produced a map showing what Beringia looked ...
The Bering Strait, which normally freezes during the winter, remained unusually ice-free this winter. The map is a false color image designed to help viewers tell how the sea ice changed between ...
The Bering Strait, scientists believe, was once spanned by a land bridge called Beringia, by which the ancestors of the American Indians first came to the continent. Rising sea levels submerged ...
Jeff Bond, a Yukon geologist, says this is the first time a map of Beringia has included ... in the place the Bering Strait now occupies. The Bering land bridge was exposed at various times ...