A number of budget cuts and operational changes have greatly hindered U.S. research efforts in Antarctica. For now, the United Kingdom appears to be picking up the slack. As Phys.org reported, the RRS ...

For more than three decades, a single orange-hulled icebreaker carried much of the United States’ scientific ambition into Antarctic waters. The RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308‑foot research vessel, ...

Many ships have tried to reach the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier—a 130-kilometer-wide conveyor belt of ice that slides off West Antarctica’s coast and splinters into the sea. Thwaites is rapidly ...

During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from Argentina for its journey south across the turbulent Drake Passage, down to ...

The research vessel Sikuliaq will journey to the South Pole this year to conduct research in Antarctica for the first time in the ship’s history. Owned by the National Science Foundation, or NSF, and ...