The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic, ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov, the bearded polar ...

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire the commercial icebreaker Aiviq to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next ...

U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker efforts have been mired in delays and accidents at sea. The delivery date of the agency’s first Polar Security Cutter has been pushed back three years behind schedule ...

Multiple U.S. government assessments have revealed that the U.S. is lagging in polar icebreaker developments, falling behind rival Arctic nations Russia and China, which has sought to identify ...

First mate Zhu Pengtao (L) and sailor Chen Dongbin adjust the navigation course aboard China's research icebreaker Xuelong 2. Currently on China's 41st Antarctic expedition, research icebreakers ...

The submersible will be launched from a specially designed polar research ship named Tan Suo San Hao (Explorer Three ... on increasing its fleet of icebreakers, vessels designed to navigate ...

Nov. 13 (UPI) --Political leaders in the United States, Finland and Canada announced Wednesday that the three nations will build world-class icebreakers for the Arctic and polar waters.