Hundreds of fishermen stranded on a breakaway ice shelf refused evacuation from rescuers as they drifted out to the Pacific ...

Russian Emergencies Ministry officials have launched an urgent mission to rescue 200 people trapped on a sheet of frozen ice.

A Russian man has been rescued after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost its engine in the ...

The fishermen were rescued on Wednesday, Feb. 12, after being stranded on an ice floe in the Sea of Okhotsk between Russian and Japan Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

The 139 fishermen became stranded when a 10-meter (32 feet) crack formed an ice floe that broke away from the island of Sakhalin and floated into the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan ...

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

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ABASHIRI, Hokkaido—The yearly drift ice spectacle upon the Sea of Okhotsk was first observed from shore on Feb. 15 as slabs of ice neared the coast here. With this winter's tours now able to ...