The concept of a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, connecting Russia and Alaska, has been a topic of discussion for decades.

USCGC Munro was deployed to provide a U.S. maritime presence in the Bering Sea that separates Alaska and Russia's Far East.

The accompanying documentary, The Ballad of Bering Strait, by filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey makes its theater premier in New York tonight and in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Friday.

While the ships are free to pass through the Bering Strait, its 55-mile width means that any spills would be likely to drift toward Alaska communities.

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) ...

A new study could explain why some ancient animals, like mammoths, crossed the Bering Land Bridge to North America during the last Ice Age while others, like woolly rhinos, stayed put in Eurasia.

Radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has drifted as far north as waters off a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait, scientists ...

WASHINGTON, March 6. /TASS/. The US Department of Defense registers a serious increase in the number of Russian vessels going through the Bering Strait, which the Pentagon believes is connected ...