These floating barriers hold back the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s expansive ice flows, and their disappearance directly ties to ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the ...

What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew's story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn't as strong as legend ...

In June 2024, explorers made a significant breakthrough in the ongoing quest to preserve the legacy of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. They located his ‘last ship’ Quest on the ocean floor, ...

"She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain."When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica had ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. (Frank Hurley | Scott Polar Research ...