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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The Arctic Arc: Interactive Question 1: Polar Regions
02.03.2007
Throughout their "Arctic Arc" expedition, Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer want to raise public awareness about the fragility of the Arctic and about the dramatic changes already taking place there. We often hear that Polar Regions are very important, but why? That's exactly what we want to ask you in this series of interactive questions.
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The Arctic Arc: 4300 km on Skis in the Arctic, They’re off!
02.03.2007
Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer left this morning. A helicopter droped them off on the ice, several kilometres away from cap Arktichewski in Siberia. They are beginning a four-month adventure on skis across the Arctic. They will first try to cross the Arctic Ocean, passing by the North Pole, and will then travel to the southernmost tip of Greenland, ending up more than 4300 km away from their starting point.
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: That’s all folks !
28.01.2007
Yesterday was another day of cuising on an empty ocean. Even the birds didn't distract us from our last tasks aboard. Everyone is busy wrapping up the mission reports, exchanging and archiving data, including pictures and video footages. While the external temperature is going up, the hard discs are getting hot !
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: Good bye Antarctica
26.01.2007
A nasty surprise when we wake up: the fog which appeared yesterday right as we left the Antarctic Sound is still with us. Intense day of work again, but a bit different: writing the expedition reports, presenting the preliminary results, packing all the material and samples, cleaning the labs, there is plenty to do. The atmosphere is also evolving: we still are on Polarstern, of course, but our spirits are…
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: the end is near
24.01.2007
The last reference sampling south of the Antarctic Sound which, as a typical Antarctic "station", will be compared to the impoverished fauna of Larsen A & B. But it was most of all the very last "station" of the whole expedition!
