Waiting for the Drift Ice Kitahama Station on the JR Senmo Line is known as the closest station to the Sea of Okhotsk. It's an unmanned station with only about 20 users per day, but when the drift ...

Rescuers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) successfully evacuated 109 anglers stranded on a drifting ice floe in the Okhotsk Sea, Sakhalin Oblast, on2. A Mi-8 helicopter ...

This past winter, as in all earlier years, drift ice (also called ice floes) descended on various sections of Hokkaido’s northeastern coast facing the Sea of Okhotsk. The city of Nemuro saw the ...

Russia's emergency ministry successfully conducted a rescue operation for 300 fishermen stranded on a drifting ice floe in ...

On2, 2025, in Sakhalin, Russia, a video captured the rescue operation for 300 fishermen stranded in the Sea of Okhotsk. A ...

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido--Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) is operating a special train again this year on part of its Senmo Line to allow passengers to view the drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk. The ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Spot rare wildlife, soak in a hot spring and sail in a frozen wonderland on Japan’s northernmost island.

TASS/. Crew of a cargo ship in the Sea of Okhotsk has sent a distress signal for evacuation due to ice formation, which could damage its hull, the Emergencies Ministry’s press service told TASS ...

the beautiful contrast, and the wild nature. It' just stunning.

While ice grew in Hudson Bay and in the Bering Sea, the ice sheet pulled back further to the north in areas such as the Labrador Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk ... been forced to drift on the ice ...