The Chinese icebreaker that helped rescue 52 passengers from a Russian ship stranded in Antarctic ice found itself stuck in heavy ice, further complicating the 9-day 'roller-coaster' rescue operation.

Case in point: Thanks to a screenshot from Google Maps, people are beginning to build and spread a conspiracy theory ...

However, it got stuck under an ice shelf ... an even more worrisome showing temperature rises in one of the largest Antarctic ice shelves. “While the temperature increase - four-thousandths ...

A23a formed in 1986 when it calved from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf on the northwestern side of Antarctica. Unlike other icebergs that float off, A23a became stuck as it hit the seafloor of the ...

The iceberg finally escaped from a Taylor column current in which it had been trapped for months. More Map made using data from the Antarctic Iceberg Tracking Database and the U.S. National Ice ...

Our obsession with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is emblematic of a problematic tendency: that of celebrating ...

An iceberg the size of Rhode Island is on the move again after spending months trapped in a whirling ... off from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf near the Antarctic Peninsula in 1986 but became ...