Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Researchers were once unsure whether mantle earthquakes existed. Now they have a global map of this mysterious phenomenon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A powerful low in the Bering Sea intensified into the deepest, low-pressure system on Earth on Tuesday. The storm bottomed out at ...

Dr. Bouffard is an assistant professor of Arctic security at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Dr. Beehner is a senior director at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. President ...

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Stormy weather in the Bering Sea on Friday was keeping response crews from getting to a 134-foot crab boat that ran aground on the island of St. George on Monday. State officials say they don’t know ...

Nine fishermen were rescued Monday from a crab boat that ran aground on St. George Island and began taking on water in rough weather. The Arctic Sea, a 134-foot crab boat with a few thousand pounds of ...

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Federal fishery managers are keeping the Bering sea pollock quota flat next year, even as they move to sharply reduce catch limits in the Gulf of Alaska. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council ...

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic. Illustration of the extinct Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a sirenian that ...