News of EducaPoles
This section presents the latest news on the International Polar Foundation's educational activities and projects. It also contains general interest news on the polar regions, climate change and sustainable development for the educational world. Our RSS feeds will inform you when news are published on this website.
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Fund Raising Campaign for Princess Elisabeth Station
11.04.2007
Wondering how you can act against Climate Change? This is it! Last week, a massive awareness campaign was launched throughout Belgium in order to raise public interest in the construction of the Princess Elisabeth research station.
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The Arctic-Arc: Excellent Progress!
05.04.2007
The good weather is back and there is daylight 24 hours a day. Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer are taking advantage of this favourable weather in order to catch up their delay and move faster than ever towards the North Pole: they managed to beat the record of their trip by progressing over 25 kilometres in a single day!
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The Arctic Arc: Stuck in their tent, they move backwards!
30.03.2007
Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been stuck in their tent for a few days because of an awful storm. Meanwhile, the ice on which they stand is moving away from the North Pole! Helpless, our explorers are moving backwards!
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The Arctic-Arc: Sunshine brings the energy back
25.03.2007
Even though Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer are progressing well and quickly towards the North Pole, the mood was glum a few days ago: indeed, because of the bad weather the explorers could not use the solar panels to recharge the batteries of all the electronical material and satellite telephone, the satellite telephone meaning their security.
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The Arctic-Arc: Interactive Question 2: polar sciences
21.03.2007
Polar sciences have largely contributed to our understanding of Earth's climate system and climate change. For example, the ice cores extracted from Greenland and Antarctica constitute the archives of our past climate. By analysing these, scientists have come to the conclusion that our climate is currently changing at a higher rate and magnitude than ever before.
