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Snowmobiles in Slush: Sports Are on Thin Ice in the Warming Arctic
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — It was early April, and while the midnight sun had not yet arrived on the remote archipelago…
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Magazine
The Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing
Sometimes history speaks in rhyme. On March 5, 1922, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was buried in a hillside cemetery…
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Science
106 Years, 4 Weeks, 1 Wreck: How Shackleton’s Ship Was Found
When perhaps the most celebrated shipwreck in Mensun Bound’s long career as a marine archaeologist was discovered, he was off…
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Science
The New Captain of the Endurance Shipwreck Is an Anemone
Huw Griffiths, a marine bio-geographer at the British Antarctic Survey, was eating pancakes when news broke that the wreck of…
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World
A 459-Foot Mystery in a Tuscan Port: Is It a Russian’s Superyacht?
From Germany’s North Sea ports to the French Riviera, open season has been declared on superyachts. Across Europe, authorities are…
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Business
Sea Ice Around Antarctica Reaches a Record Low
Sea ice around Antarctica has reached a record low in four decades of observations, a new analysis of satellite images…
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World
A Photographer’s View of Jordan’s Many Splendors
In September 2021, after more than two years without traveling, my girlfriend and I decided to take a trip to…
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Business
A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival
A century after Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank in the waters of Antarctica, resulting in one of the greatest survival…
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World
An Extraordinary Iceberg Is Gone, but Not Forgotten
Perhaps you remember iceberg A68a, which enjoyed a few minutes of fame back in 2017 when it broke off an…
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World
She Flew Around the World in 155 Days. She’s Only 19.
She could have started college. Instead, she spent five months flying more than 32,000 miles across five continents. “My name…
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