The wreck of the final ship belonging to legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton has been located 1,280 feet down in the Labrador Sea. Shackleton acquired Quest, a Norwegian-built ...

From Scotland’s entry to the Venice Biennale to celebrations of work by Joan Eardley and Kenneth Dingwall, there’s a lot to ...

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The crumbling wooden house on South Georgia Island, where Sir Ernest Shackleton organized the rescue of his crew in 1916, is ...

Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...

My first guest, and shipping hero, was both an explorer and seafarer. Ernest Shackleton is an exceptional role model for both ...

London: Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.Shackleton famosly reached the whaling station of Stromness on South ...

Senior Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder Matthew L. Druckenmiller receives ...

The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a US science agency announced Tuesday, as climate change triggers cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening ...

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil into waterways. By Eric Niiler Reporting from the ...

In 2006, when the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, released the first-ever Arctic Report Card, scientists already knew the top of the world was in trouble. It’s now much ...

The Arctic last season was the hottest it has been in the past 125 years. The extent of sea ice during its usual maximum in March was the lowest in 47 years of satellite recordkeeping. The North ...