As climate change brings more boats to the Arctic, the U.S.'s need for boats that can cut through the ice has also increased.

A nuclear-powered icebreaker lost control and slammed into a cargo ship it had been sent to rescue. The Russian vessel, Fifty ...

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his ...

Terrifying scenes in the Arctic's Kara Sea as a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker vessel crashed into a cargo ship it had ...

The president plans to order new icebreakers to help compete with Russia and China, but the first one the U.S. has built in ...

The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion system susceptible to failure in ice. Its waste and disc ...

On January 26, 2025, in the Kara Sea, Russia, a video captured a collision between the Russian nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of ...

A Russian nuclear icebreaker has been damaged in a collision with a cargo ship in the Arctic Circle, according to Russian media. The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting ...

ProPublica journalist McKenzie Funk says the Aiviq has a history of failures and design problems, but the Coast Guard doesn’t ...