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: Greenland in Sight
13.06.2007
It has been a week now that Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer can see the outline of the Greenland mountains, dominating the coast in the distance: a vision that is a little surreal for the two men, after having spent over 100 days seeing nothing but ice blocks. Today, for the first time, they can distinctively see the Greenland coast, since they are now only about twenty kilometres away from…
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Arctic Arc - Fracturing Ice Straight Ahead!
08.06.2007
Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer are approaching their destination: they only have 120 kilometres left to go before they reach Greenland's coast. But, day after day, conditions are getting inexorably tougher for the expedition: the sea ice has broken up, isolating our explorers from the coast and forcing them to change their route once again by taking a big detour around the dangerous zone.
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The Arctic Arc Contest
06.06.2007
To thank you all for the great support during the Arctic Arc expedition, the International Polar Foundation invites you to enter an online contest. The goal is to guess how many kilometres will have been walked andskied by Alain and Dixie by the end of their trip. You will have toguess the number of kilometres displayed by their GPS at the end of theexpedition.
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The Arctic Arc - Educational Activity: Follow the Ice Drift
05.06.2007
When he left on his expedition "The Arctic Arc", Alain Hubert took with him an Argos beacon, lent by the CNES for their Argonautica programme. This beacon, traced by satellite, allows classes to follow the ice drift "live" on the internet!
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The Arctic-Arc - The sea ice is melting unusually quickly
30.05.2007
Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been delayed by strange weather conditions and surprisingly fragile or fractured ice throughout the expedition: what is going on in the Arctic? Be that as it may, our explorers have picked up speed to reach Greenland before the ice melts.
