The Arctic's winter ice extent reached its lowest recorded level in March since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March ...

Drift ice, the annual winter spectacle that draws tour boats in Japan’s northern seas, will soon be few and far between due to global warming, scientists warn. A study by Hokkaido University ...

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido—The yearly drift ice spectacle upon the Sea of Okhotsk was first observed from shore on Feb. 15 as slabs of ice neared the coast here. With this winter's tours now able to ...

Seas off the coast of Hokkaido's Abashiri are now covered with drift ice, chunks of freshwater ice that emerge from the Amur River. The largest pieces are more than ten meters across and some are ...

Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the northern seas to get here. Local temperatures in winter drop to 20 degrees Celsius below zero.

Earlier this month, Porsche Experience instructor Jens Richter set a new world record for the longest continuous drift on ice in an electric vehicle. That electric vehicle was a Porsche Taycan GTS ...