Yuri Rytkheu, the best known of Chukchi writers, was born in 1930 to a family of hunters and trappers, in Uelen, a village on the coast of what is now Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula. He studied ...

Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L> is seeking permission to extend its Arctic drilling season as it struggles with the logistics of exploring untapped oil reserves beneath icy waters off Alaska.

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, ...

Hanna Shoal, a region of shallow water in the remote Chukchi Sea that President Barack Obama last week put off limits to oil leasing, has long been known as a biological hot spot in the icy Arctic ...

Underhill, Vivian R 1 ; Wood, Kevin R 2 ; Mahoney, Andy 3. 1 University of Colorado, Environmental Sciences Department 2 Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean 3 University of ...

Polar bear numbers in the Chukchi Sea between Russia and Alaska have climbed to 3,000 (but climate change could still starve them to death) Polar bears are listed as a threatened species because ...

Alaska's Chukchi Sea, the remote region separating North America's northwestern tip from northeastern Siberia, is one of the "potentially most prolific oil fields" left in the world and could ...

ABSTRACTUsing data from a number of summer surveys of the Chukchi Sea over the past decade, we investigate aspects in which the benthic fauna, sediment structure, and zooplankton there are related to ...

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.