Educational resources and activities By following-up on the expedition's progress, teachers and their students will learn about various polar topics of importance. All through the Arctic Arc expedition (from February to June 2007), teaching tools, multimedia animations, picture galleries, ...

Educational resources and activities By following-up on the expedition's progress, teachers and their students will learn about various polar topics of importance. All through the Arctic Arc expedition (from February to June 2007), teaching tools, multimedia animations, picture galleries, inte...

The International Polar Year 2007-08 will be launched on the 1st of March. Across both hemispheres, dozens of nations are organizing events and ceremonies both large and small to celebrate the occasion. Together, they will engage experts, children and the general public, and will play an important role in raising awareness as to the Polar Regions' central relevance as climate archives, early warning systems, threatened habitats, and (in the case of the Arctic) homes to indigenous cultures.(This article does not aim to present each and every IPY related event or initiative. For more information on this vast collaborative effort, please refer to the ...

On the 2nd of February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 released a contribution to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report: "Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policy Makers". Sciencepoles has produced a summary of the polar aspects contained in this document. Here is a short synopsis, the full article is available on our website. Overall, the report concludes that global average temperature will rise between 1.1°C to 6.4°C by 2100, and that it is 'very likely' (90% certainty) that human activities and emissions are causing global warming As key components and contributors to the global cl...

The IPY logo is available for download in several formats: As a GIF file, 142x142 pixels; as a GIF file, 198x198 pixels; as a ZIPped TIFF file, and as a B/W zipped EPS file. Here is a PDF version of the logo (248 KB). For a logo without the '2007-2008' text, useful for legacy applications, use this ...

The IPY logo is available for download in several formats: As a GIF file, 142x142 pixels; as a GIF file, 198x198 pixels; as a ZIPped TIFF file, and as a B/W zipped EPS file. Here is a PDF version of the logo (248 KB). For a logo without the '2007-2008' text, useful for legacy applications, use this ...

Huge areas of sea floor (around 3,250 km²) have been freed up by the collapse 4 years ago of the Larsen B platform along the Antarctic Peninsula – leaving a blank spot on Antarctic maps.Polarstern, the research flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will shortly conduct there the first major biological research. The Science25 different research projects will be undertaken by 47 scientists, encompassing disciplines as diverse as benthology, plankton...