The incredible remote island with just 4,200 residents and an active volcano
There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...
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The Search for One of North America’s Rarest Birds
Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...
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Alaskan Communities Use Flexibility in Snow Crab Fishery Regulations for Economic Relief
NOAA Fisheries works with communities, harvesters, and processors to navigate solutions in a pinch. The Alaska Bering Sea snow crab fishery is open for the first time in 2 years after a sharp decline ...
Spring across the gulf coast region, with ongoing snow to the north
It’s a battle of two seasons across the state, as winter remains to the north, while spring is spreading across the gulf ...
Why Two Islands Will See A Total Solar Eclipse On Different Days
The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait are separated by the International Date Line with Big ... More Diomede Island ...
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US Coast Guard Cutter Munro stops in Juneau as it begins its patrol
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro offered public tours in Juneau on Tuesday before departing to conduct flight operations ...
Greenland is hard to defend. As Trump threatens, the Danes are trying.
One way or the other,” President Donald Trump told Congress, the United States needs to “get” Greenland, strategically ...
Air traffic controller stops Southwest pilots from mistakenly taking off on taxiway
The aircraft’s top speed was about 80 mph, according to flight data tracker FlightRadar24. Airplanes typically travel about 35 mph on taxiways.
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Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” In June 1942, Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian islands in Alaska prompted the U.S. military to activate the ...
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U.S. investigators say Alaska plane was overweight for icy conditions in crash that killed 10
The Feb 6. Bering Air crash was one of Alaska's deadliest plane crashes this century and the third major U.S. aviation mishap in an eight-day stretch. A commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter ...
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Alaska plane that crashed and left 10 dead was more than 1,000 pounds over the weight limit, NTSB finds
The Bering Air flight that recently crashed in sea ice off Alaska, killing 10, was more than 1,000 pounds "over the maximum takeoff gross weight for flight into known or forecast icing conditions ...
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Bering Air Cessna Caravan departed overweight before fatal accident: NTSB
The National Transport Safety Bureau (NTSB) has issued a preliminary report into the fatal accident involving a Bering Air Cessna 208B Caravan registered N321BA, which crashed in a remote part of ...