The search for the Endurance will also give scientists a chance to study the pack ice in the Weddell Sea. Sub Sea team retrieves the AUV after a test dive on February 15, 2022. Credit - Endurance22 ...

Explorers have started combing the Weddell Sea for one of the most revered ships in the history of polar exploration, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, which sank in 1915. Credit... Supported by ...

There’s an old aircraft hangar in Churchill, Manitoba, near Canada’s Hudson Bay. In the early 1980s, it was converted into 28 reinforced cells; you don’t want these inmates escaping. It’s the Polar ...

Was the legendary sinking of Endurance in 1915 due to a string of bad luck or a series of fatal design flaws and risky decisions? New research suggests that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famous polar tale ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all ...

Scientists exploring beneath Antarctica’s ice uncovered thousands of fish nests arranged in striking geometric patterns.

Something strange is happening to the Antarctic’s sea ice. The areal expanse of floating ice fringing the continent is not only at a record low for this time of year — surpassing a record just set in ...

Although models accurately predicted the evolution of the Arctic storm, scientists were surprised to see just how much sea ice thickness decreased in the storm's aftermath. When you purchase through ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: This story is a collaboration with Biography.com The story of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance is the stuff of maritime ...

The hunt is on for Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sits 10,000 feet below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica. After an 11-day voyage aboard a South African icebreaker, the expedition, known as ...