The Bering Strait is seen on Aug. 18. 2000, in an image captured by a special camera mounted on NASA’s Terra satellite. (Image provided by NASA) ...

Alaska Airlines Russia flights were a bold post-Cold War experiment connecting Alaska with Siberia in the 1990s.

WASHINGTON, July 26.—A Trans- Alaska-Siberian Railway Company has been organized, and a petition has been forwarded to Secretary Hitchcock for his approval of the route across Alaska.

Aerial view of China's icebreaker Xue Long 2 on July 3 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. Sun Qimeng/VCG via AP. China has called itself a "near-Arctic state" and has two icebreaking polar ...