Chief Executive John Lee praises visit, the vessel’s first to a Chinese port after completing recent polar expedition.

Quota of 3,000 people can visit the vessel free of charge at the Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui from April 9 to 12.

The team about the Xuelong 2 polar icebreaker will spend a year collecting data on the crustaceans, which play a vital role in the South Pole’s food chain.

As tourism rules tighten in the Antarctic, Post Magazine returns to the frozen continent to view Mother Nature at her coolest from the luxurious Seabourn Pursuit, with its inflatables and a submersible.

At three times the size of New York, and weighing nearly a trillion tonnes, iceberg A23a is on the move for the first time in over 30 years.

Discovery raises concerns the deadly virus could pose a threat to penguins and other local species.

The floating frozen platforms surround the continent, helping to protect and stabilise the region’s glaciers by slowing their flow into the ocean.

‘It’s so far outside anything we’ve seen, it’s almost mind-blowing.’

Boat builder and explorer Pierre Sauvadet talks about discovering a passion for adventure as a child, what draws him to the Arctic and why he feels at home in his Hong Kong ‘village’.

The man was working at Casey research station in the bitter Antarctic winter when he suffered from what authorities described as a developing medical condition that needed specialist assessment and care.

The babies drowned or froze to death when sea ice gave way under their feet, ‘probably a sign of things to come’.

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‘Such records are the predictable consequence … due to mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions,’ leading climate scientist Robert Rohde said.

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The ship could help China become second country, after Russia, to take people to Arctic sea floor in deep-sea submersibles, according to engineer.

Chill out at these icy escapes in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and Antarctica, where you can feel the call of the wild while being assured of their ongoing efforts towards sustainable status

Study co-led by China’s BGI-Research reveals how huge genome size helps tiny shrimp-like creatures survive in icy polar waters.

The pencil-shaped Icefin explored cracks in the Thwaites ice shelf, which got its nickname because of how much its collapse may contribute to rising sea levels.

The latest scientific assessment shows recovery in progress more than 35 years after every nation in the world agreed to stop producing ozone-eating chemicals.

Thai marine biologist Suchana Chavanich says research in Antarctica could help humanity prepare for the effects of climate change.

Launched to measure the height of water on more than 90 per cent of Earth’s surface, allowing scientists to track the flow and identify high-risk areas as climate change worsens droughts, flooding and coastal erosion.

Fiann Paul is set to lead a team of six ocean rowers, and hopes to become a ‘badass’ by notching up some world firsts in journey honouring Harry ‘Chippy’ McNish.

A US think tank says relations with Russia will shape China’s activities and influence in the Arctic, but could also create uncertainties.

A government report detailed ‘predatory’ culture at the stations, including unwelcome requests for sex and display of pornography.

Frozen Planet II, BBC’s new nature documentary voiced by David Attenborough, paints a beautiful portrait of the Earth’s polar regions as it addresses urgent climate change concerns.