The Coast Guard cutter Storis completed a 36-day Bering Sea deployment to test its capabilities and train for high-risk Arctic missions.
Ten people. Eight weeks. Three thousand feet to pierce a fast-melting Antarctic glacier.
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star deployed from Seattle in November on the 146-day mission supporting Operation Deep Freeze.
The Military Sealift Command chartered heavy lift ship Plantijngracht is conducting cargo offload operations at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, as part of MSC's ongoing support of the annual Antarctic resupply mission: Operation Deep Freeze 2026.
Scientists on the Thwaites Glacier attempted to install equipment beneath the ice to better understand how it is melting. Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong walks us through their landmark experiment and the bittersweet outcome.
The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through the door of a helicopter.
Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath.
AI:Scientific efforts to drill through Antarctica's highly unstable Thwaites Glacier have ended in failure after researchers lost their essential instrumentation deep within the ice. Despite the loss of equipment, the mission provided critical data regarding the temperature and movement of the warming waters circulating beneath the glacier, offering a brief glimpse into the processes driving its instability.Open
A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot water to punch through ice.
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star began icebreaking operations in the Southern Ocean in support of Operation Deep Freeze 26 and marked its 50th year of commissioned service by freeing and escorting a cruise ship trapped in a pack of ice.