In 1931, the SS Baychimo, a cargo ship owned by the Hudson Bay Company, became trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Despite efforts to free her, she vanished into the frozen Arctic sea, but ...

These eerie ghost ships have coasted through the world's oceans for thousands of miles, prompting many questions about their ...

During the summer, several destinations, from Norway to Alaska, experience the Midnight Sun, a phenomenon where the sun remains visible 24/7. This continuous daylight, caused by the Earth's tilt, ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Most federal Arctic waters were ... had been used for Shell’s exploration in the Beaufort Sea, the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a ...

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. discovered it in the ... the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a separate drill ship in the Chukchi Sea, west of Point Barrow and north ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Most federal Arctic ... the portion of the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow. Shell used a separate drill ship in the Chukchi Sea, west of Point Barrow ...

Last month, less sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean than in any other July ... Iñupiat Corporation in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. For Aarons, the reality hit long ago, and the question ...

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973 ... After the C-130 landed, Donald “Nok” Acker of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), a nonprofit research ...

Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, literally tore up a list of 70 ... The pipeline would run from Prudhoe Bay – on the Arctic Ocean – to the Kenai Peninsula near Homer. Currently, essentially the only ...

two flights dropped approximately 35 buoys along a flight path from Barrow, Alaska, over the Arctic Ocean and its peripheral East Siberian, Laptev, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The buoys track air ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

Two humpback whales feed in Beaufort Sea, northeast of Point Barrow. (Kate Stafford ... Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January ...