News Headline
Scientists plan year locked in ice to unlock Arctic climate change data
Source
Yale Climate Connections
Publication Date
2019-12-11
More than 300 scientists from 19 nations are engaged in planned two- to three-month stints locked in polar ice on the German icebreaker RV Polarstern. Over the winter, researchers face constant darkness, frigid temperatures plunging to -45 degrees Celsius, and the threat of hungry polar bears near their research camps.