As global warming continues and sea lanes open in the Arctic, the world’s major powers are pouring money into the construction of icebreaker ships. Icebreaker ships are the unsung enablers of Arctic ...

In much colder parts of the world where oceans tend to freeze over, conventional vessels are essentially immobilized without the help of icebreaker ships. These vessels break, crush, and clear frozen ...

(CNN) — The US Coast Guard is buying four icebreaker ships from Finland, further bolstering America’s ability to put military assets in the Arctic at a time when Russia and China’s influence in the ...

The United States is effectively leapfrogging decades of woeful inattention to the Arctic. For the last 18 years, the United States has all but ceded the Arctic to Russia. Since the moment the Russian ...

WASHINGTON DC - Two Michigan members of Congress are asking President Donald Trump to send a recently obtained icebreaker ship to the Great Lakes. U.S. Reps. Tom Barrett, a Republican, and Hillary ...

Most ships spend their lives at sea, yet naval warships are almost always painted haze gray while many icebreakers stand out ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Growing up in Canada, I always considered the Arctic part of my ...