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Polarstern team warns Arctic may be past tipping point
A research team that set sail for the Arctic has warned that the tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered.
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Arctic science mission wraps up as research ship docks in Germany
The Polarstern docked at its home port of Bremerhaven nearly 13 months after it left Norway to study the rapidly changing Arctic.
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Arctic explorers find unusually thin ice as a result of climate change
The biggest ever science expedition to the Arctic encountered extremely thin sea ice, which could threaten future efforts to study the region.
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What coronavirus can teach us about climate change
Imagine that you left earth before coronavirus and returned this week. That is pretty much what has happened to a team of 87 people on board the icebreaker Polarstern, who spent the past six months doing climate research in the Arctic and arrived back on land a few days ago.
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Virus delay, early ice melt challenge Arctic climate change research mission
Dozens of scientists are sitting in quarantine, waiting for permission to sail forth and capture a crucial moment in the polar calendar that's essential to their yearlong Arctic research mission.
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Polarstern research vessel at North Pole imperiled by coronavirus
Organizers of the biggest Arctic research expedition in history are scrambling to find a port for a ship of returning scientists after Norway closed its border.
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The biggest Arctic expedition ever will spend a year in sea ice studying climate change
Hundreds of researchers will spend a year in the fastest-warming place on the planet to understand the consequences of climate change.
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