Shell s exit from the Chukchi Sea marks the end of the most recent Arctic offshore exploration program in the region. But the rocks under the Chukchi s frigid waters have not changed: The region ...

Even though the Chukchi Sea polar bear population has fared better than others in the rapidly warming Arctic environment, the animals are getting more exposure to disease pathogens, a new study shows.

As of Nov. 3, sea ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas in is the lowest on record for the last five years, even with tiny bits of ice starting to form in Norton Bay and the Kotzebue Sound.

The first scientific assessment of polar bears that live in the Chukchi Sea region that spans the US and Russia finds the population is healthy and does not yet appear to be suffering from ...

The story of the film is related by Yevgeny Kaipanau, a 36-year-old Chukchi who grew up in Lorino and now works as a choreographer for the Chukchi folk ensemble in Moscow.

The rapid disintegration of the Chukchi Sea ice is an “exclamation point” on a remarkable series of rapid fire Arctic changes, he said. “It’s another sign that the Arctic is unraveling.

Global warming is causing a rapid decline in sea-ice area, which affects weather patterns and, surprisingly, increases wave height in the Arctic. In a new study, Japanese scientists analyzed data ...

When Cai first studied the Arctic Ocean in 2008, he saw that the ice had melted beyond the Chukchi Sea in the northwest corner of the region, all the way to the Canada Basin — far beyond its typical ...

Temperatures in the region are expected to continue rising, and some models suggest that the kinds of anomalous wind patterns observed in 2017 through 2019—which helped drive the sea ice farther ...

The migration essentially follows the sea ice south through the Bering Strait, which would close up as ice formed in the Chukchi Sea. But warming temperatures in the Arctic over the past decade ...

Polar bears roaming the ice and swimming the waters of the Chukchi Sea have become increasingly exposed over the past decades to a collection of disease pathogens, according to a newly published ...