A Galway sailor forced out of a solo round-the-world race has vowed to complete the epic challenge.

An Irish sailor stranded at the bottom of the world after being forced out of a solo round-the-world race is considering restarting the epic voyage after being rescued.

An Irish sailor stranded on the other side of the world after being forced out of a solo round-the-world race is considering restarting the epic voyage after being rescued.

Last Sunday in a little French fishing village called Les Sables D’Olonne a race began which many people say is the most difficult sporting challenge left in the world today, writes Stewart Hosford.

To mark 100 years since Tom Crean embarked on one of the great feats of navigation, his descendants have decided to travel on the same epic journey, they tell Dan MacCarthy

The gallant endeavours of Cork and Kerry explorers enriched our national heritage, writes Brendan Cardiff

There is a book to be written on the medical profession and its influence on the wine industry.

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race sees hundreds of non-sailors take to the waves, John Tynan reports

One of the world’s biggest glaciers, holding enough water to raise global sea levels by about six metres, is under threat from warming ocean temperatures.

Now that's what you call a floater

Judges at the highest UN court ordered Japan to halt whaling in the Antarctic, rejecting the country’s long-held argument that the catch was for scientific purposes and not primarily for human consumption.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan’s Antarctic whaling programme is not for scientific purposes and has ordered a temporary halt.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan’s Antarctic whaling programme is not for scientific purposes and has ordered a temporary halt.

An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers plucked from an icebound ship in the Antarctic is resuming its journey home after it was halted for a second potential rescue operation.

West Cork-based Australian painter and sculptor, John Kelly, is sailing for two weeks from Hobart, in Australia, across the Southern Ocean for a three-month art residency in the Antarctic. His work there will be “a direct painterly response to the unique, wild and beautiful Antarctic landscape.”

Petrel Resources is planning an aggressive programme of works after signing a farm-out agreement with Australian gas giant Woodside.

LAST month, I visited Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.

Explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew have just set off on the exact route across the Antarctic taken by Irishman Ernest Shackleton in 1916, right down to a replica boat and equipment, he tells Danielle McGrane

South Korea plans to resume hunting whales for research purposes, officials said today, drawing immediate protests from non-whaling nations and environment groups.

Land ahoy.

Rorke Bryan has produced a wonderful book, says Tim Severin , about the ships that brought explorers — and tourists — to the ends of the earth

Damian Foxall is Ireland’s finest ocean racing sailor. He tells Dan Buckley about the thrills of his trips around the world.

Happy Feet the rescued penguin has vanished in the ocean on his way home from New Zealand just days after his release, leaving behind a mystery that may never be solved.

A young emperor penguin that turned up on a New Zealand beach will not be getting a free ride all the way back to its Antarctic home – but the bird’s human friends will at least help it get a little closer.

Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland has been reunited with her brother, after her solo around-the-world journey ended when her boat fell apart in an southern Ocean storm.

THE International Whaling Commission withdrew yesterday behind closed doors within minutes of kicking off a tense meeting that could end a global ban on commercial whaling.

A Derry businessman is to skipper a crew of virtual novices in his first attempt at one of the most gruelling challenges at sea, it was revealed today.

A round-the-world sailor was receiving medical treatment on board an Australian naval ship after being rescued from the Southern Ocean.

Conservation groups called today for Japan’s whaling fleet to turn back as the first ship set sail for the annual hunt in the Southern Ocean.

A COMMEMORATIVE set of coins marking Irish Antarctic explorers Earnest Shackleton and Tom Crean are being issued.

Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt off Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country’s fleet, a Japanese official said today.

Two anti-whaling activists were still on board a Japanese ship today as protesters continued to shadow its hunting fleet.

INTERNATIONAL action is urgently needed to protect Antarctica, environmentalists warned today.

ONE of the largest giant squid ever found has washed up on a remote Australian beach, sparking a race against time by scientists to examine the rarely seen deep-ocean creature.

ONE of the earth’s key natural barriers to global warming could be strengthened by the first commercial venture to grow vast plankton blooms, a US eco-restoration firm said yesterday.

A HIDDEN universe of exotic marine life has been discovered in the ocean depths around Antarctica.

More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world’s poles to measure the effects of climate change.

All 294 passengers aboard a Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground in the Antarctic were being transferred to a sister ship today.

GREENPEACE displayed a dead whale outside the Japanese Embassy in Berlin yesterday to highlight its claim that Japanese hunters have killed at least 123 whales in the icy seas off the coast of Antarctica since the start of the whaling season this year.

Japan will continue its whale-hunting programme despite mounting international protest, a fisheries official said today.

New Zealand said today that it had joined 16 other nations in demanding that Japan halt its whale killing in the oceans near Antarctica.

JAPANESE whalers used water cannons to drive off Greenpeace protesters yesterday as the environmental activists battled to prevent a Japanese ship from loading a harpooned whale in the Southern Ocean.

Japanese whalers used water cannons to drive off Greenpeace protesters today as the environmental activists battled to prevent a Japanese ship from loading a harpooned whale in the Southern Ocean.

ALBATROSSES regularly make epic round-the-world flights when they are not busy breeding, scientists revealed yesterday.