Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

The land bridge that once connected North America and Asia rose from the seas 80,000 years ago. And at the same time, North America's climate began experiencing violent climate swings, with average temperatures shifting as much as ten degrees every decade.  

NOME, ALASKA The measure of how challenging it can be to live in Nome, Alaska, starts with a dollar sign. There are plentiful, painful reminders all over this Bering Sea coastal community. At the grocery store, it’s $39.25 for a 12-roll package of...  

NOME, Alaska -- The measure of how challenging it can be to live in Nome, Alaska, starts with a dollar sign. There are plentiful, painful reminders all over this Bering Sea coastal community. At the grocery store, it's $39.25 for a 12-roll ...  

Recording from 1945 captures dancing, announcement of end of WWII By Ross Coen For the Arctic Sounder Buzz Walters, a sergeant in the U.S. Army stationed in Nome, Alaska, arrived at the local school on the evening of August 14, 1945, with a reel-to-reel tape recorder under his arm. Native dancers from King Island were scheduled to perform that evening, and Sgt. Walters wanted to record the ...