A Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel and a U.S. Coast Guard escort are trudging their way through dangerous, ice-choked waters in an attempt to reach the iced-in Alaska port of Nome, according to Coast Guard officials. The icy trek to Nome, now facing a severe fuel shortage, is the first-ever attempt at this type of [...]

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A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling for days to pass through a huge chunk of ice has finally broken free and reached open water off of the coast of Antarctica. The Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker, which was carrying 101 passengers, got jammed up in the ice earlier this week in the Weddell Sea off [...]

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