Articles & Interviews
Sciencepoles articles look at key findings from a range of polar science and research fields. Our articles RSS feed will inform you when new articles are published on this website.
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More of Europe at High Latitudes
24.05.2005
Europe is not lagging behind in terms of polar research, it has a prestigious past, and its current expertise is acknowledged worldwide. As we come to the International Polar Year in 2007-2008, Gérard Jugie, Chairman of the European Polar Board (EPB) and Director of the French Paul Emile Victor Polar…
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The Polar Regions: Sentinels of Major Climate Change
24.05.2005
Polar regions are not only keepers of the Earth's climate archives, They also act as sentinels. A kind of early warning system of what can be expected by the planet as a whole ...
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Ozone Story
24.05.2005
The discovery of a hole in the zone layer goes back to the 1980s. It was in the Antarctic that the first ground measurements of ozone levels produced some surprising results. As early as 1985, Joseph Farman, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), published the results of his observations in…
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Permanent Monitoring of the Atmosphere from Svalbard
24.05.2005
Greenhouse gases, organic and inorganic pollutants, aerosol... In order to study climate change, account must be taken of a great many parameters, one of the most important being the rapid evolution in the quality of our atmosphere.
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The Aurora Borealis: Proposal for an Advanced European Icebreaker
24.05.2005
Sediment deposits, lying deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor, hold the key to understanding the region's climate history, and its effect on the global environment over many millions of years. Drilling for this information while operating in pack ice, however, is a very delicate and costly operation that requires state-of-the-art…
