One of them, of course, is Cooper, who, in 2006, finished a 2,326-page feasibility study for the Bering Strait tunnel (which was sponsored by the Canadian Arctic Railway Company, whose owner later ...

At a Russian Academy of Science meeting in March, Vladimir Yakunin, the 66-year-old head of Russian Railways, unveiled detailed plans for what may seem like an impossible infrastructure project.

WASHINGTON, July 26.—A Trans- Alaska-Siberian Railway Company has been organized, and a petition has been forwarded to Secretary Hitchcock for his approval of the route across Alaska.

For more than a century, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of building a tunnel connecting the eastern and western hemispheres under the Bering Strait — only to be brought up short by war ...

A map showing how Beringia, which includes the famous ice age land bridge, looked at the last glacial maximum, about 18,000 years ago. (Image credit: Bond, J.D. 2019.

The last time the land bridge emerged was about 37,500 years ago, according to recent research, and it became submerged again between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago. The strait is significant in ...

LONDON — Does going from Russia to the United States by railroad sound like a pipe dream? Perhaps, but that’s the vision, or dream, of a consortium of financiers, engineers, entrepreneu… ...

Although there are no icebergs in the Bering Strait, ice floes up to 1.8 metres thick are in constant motion during certain seasons, which could produce forces on the order of 44 meganewtons ...

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. Alaska watches, nervously, as Ukraine war ...

A new study that reconstructs the history of sea level at the Bering Strait shows that the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less ...

As for the US? They might be a little further behind. In 2020, the US Government approved a huge 2,570-kilometer (1,597-mile) railway line that connects the US and Canada, from Alaska to Alberta.