The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water. It has characteristics of both a lake and a sea; it's surrounded by land with no natural outlet, but it’s filled with salty water, not ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has reverberated through Europe and spread to other countries that have long been dependent on the region for natural gas. But while oil-producing ...

Davie intends to build icebreaker ships for the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy, said Joshua Owens, executive director of the ...

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s efforts to strengthen Alaska’s military system and reopen the naval base on a remote Aleutian Island ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), highlighted the need for President Trump’s planned “Golden Dome” missile defense system, and the ...

The Diomede Islands, located in the Bering Strait, are a unique geographic and political anomaly, lying just a few kilometers apart but divided by the international border between Russia and the ...

The uptick in Russian and Chinese activity near Alaska ... toward Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands sit astride the great circle routes, the shortest paths between Asia and North ...

The island, which sits halfway between mainland Alaska and Russia, would give the U.S. “an opportunity to gain time and distance on any force capability that’s looking to penetrate,” Paparo ...

The clip, titled "The Distance Between the US and Russia is Less Than You Think - Diomede Islands", reveals a surprising ... after the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the US in 1867.

going between the islands is forbidden. Traveling between what would later become Russia and Alaska didn’t always require the sea to freeze over, however. Around 25,000 years ago, Earth was ...

The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia ... of the westernmost Aleutian Islands and his eventual death from scurvy in December 1741, it was an incredible success for Russia. The surviving crew fixed ...