Penguin was a small prefabricated armed sailing vessel which was carried to Port Egmont aboard the much larger and much more famous ship HMS Endeavour. Endeavour had carried Captain James Cook on ...

Every direction he turned, he could see ice stretching to the edge of the ... He was also raising money for the Endeavour Fund, a charity for wounded soldiers. A few weeks earlier, Prince William ...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include rainfall, according to new research.

A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...

We’d been jigging spoons for five hours. We drilled through eight feet of ice to reach water. We had yet to get a bite. “It’s so peaceful out here,” my wife, Tiffany, whispered, not wanting to break ...

More than 100 fishermen were rescued from a sheet of floating ice that drifted into waters off Russia’s remote Far East, ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Ice breakers and cruises showcase the remarkable capabilities of ships designed for extreme conditions. These vessels navigate through thick ice, ensuring safe passage for other ships in harsh ...

Wednesday, Feb. 12, after they became stranded on an ice floe floating in the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...