There is danger lurking on the floor of the Bering and Chukchi seas for mussels, snails, clams, worms and other cold-water invertebrates, according to a new study led by National Oceanic and ...

The Chukchi is among the most pristine marine environments in the world, providing habitat for a wide range of protected species, including walruses, ringed seals and the spectacled eider, an eye ...

WWF warns StatoilHydro against engagement in exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska when US Mineral Management Services opens the auction round for the area on February 6. The area is ...

ANCHORAGE — An environmental group on Thursday gave formal notice that it intends to sue the federal government for what conservationists consider a failure to protect critical habitat for polar ...

Get to know more on the Arctic habitat of the 'sea bear.' Olivia Munson. ... there was a stable subpopulation of polar bears between 2008 and 2016 in the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Russia.

The Polar Bear Seas Protection Act (H.R. 6057), introduced by Congressmen Jay Inlsee and Maurice Hinchey in the House, and Senator John Kerry's similar bill in the Senate (S. 2568), would prohibit ...

ARKHANGELSK, May 19. /TASS/. New fish stocks in the Russian Federation's Arctic Zone were discovered in the Kara and Chukchi Seas over the past five years.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska The U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq can break through ice as thick as 2.5 feet (0.76 meters). In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes ...