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 ...

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 ...

A rescue flotilla, consisting of inflatable dinghies, motorboats, and helicopters, was dispatched to intercept the group before the ice could drift too ... when the Sea of Okhotsk freezes.

Tourists are flocking to Abashiri City in Hokkaido Prefecture to marvel at the countless ice floes drifting through the Sea of Okhotsk. The phenomenon started about two weeks later than usual ...

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 ...

Check your internet connection or browser settings. Ice sheets were particularly bare in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Barents Sea. Russia has been reactivating its cold war naval bases on the ...

A new study has shed light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to ...

The winter growth period for sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now over, with levels at a record low. The winter ice extent on ...

His lips go numb. And then, camera in hand, Skerry dives between the ice floes into the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, bordering the Shiretoko Peninsula. Most people think of Japan as a compact ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Nitrous oxide in the surface water was measured using an automatic underway system, along with measurements of surface water pCO₂, ...