Ship crawls 8 km in 24 hours in Antarctic ice, turns back
Despite Antarctic sea ice reaching its second-lowest extent on record, a British Antarctic Survey-led expedition was forced to return as the ship crawled just 8 km in 24 hours, with over 400 km left. The scientists wanted to investigate an ecosystem hidden beneath an ice shelf for 120,000 years, recently exposed after the separation of a trillion-tonne iceberg last July.