Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as ...

The land bridge, now submerged under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, was above water from about 36,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago.Scientists thought it might have looked a lot like ...

I’ve come to Round Island with my brother, a wildlife biologist, to see walruses in the wild. Despite being Alaska’s longest-running wildlife-viewing program, the island is infrequently visited.