This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Snow, who was tasked with aiding in the recovery of victims, ultimately retrieved 306 bodies from the icy waters, including John Jacob Astor IV and ...

At first glance, an anthill looks like a small pile of sand on the Earth with a tiny hole in the top that ants crawl into to evade danger, but they’re actually a lot more complicated than that. Rather ...

Russian sailors conducted an unusual animal rescue last week, when they retrieved a dog from an iceberg. The crew of an icebreaker near the Arctic noticed the fluffy white pup, stranded on some sea ...

Antarctica's western Weddell Sea once had a less-discovered area that's now become a major topic of discussion in the scientific world. The remote region, once hidden beneath a 200-meter-thick ice ...

The world’s largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it’s no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. The shrinking megaberg, known as ...

Each year, massive hunks of 10,000-year-old glaciers drift toward Canada’s east coast. Their beauty can be ephemeral—but social media is helping more travelers to find them. Visitors to Newfoundland’s ...