Krusenstern Lagoon in Cape Krusenstern National Monument is one of many lagoons along the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. Photo: Marguerite Tibbles For more than 4,000 years, the Iñupiat people have lived on the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska, relying on wild...
The Bering Strait between Eurasia and North America was not always a waterway. 18,000 years ago, at the the peak of the last ice age, the area was open and connected the two continents. But the actually arctic area didn’t look very arctic either despite the...