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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International Polar Year Focuses on Climate Change
28.09.2006
Of the nearly 220 international research projects endorsed by the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, around half will be looking at the effects of climate change in the Polar Regions, and the implications of this change for the Earth's climate system as a whole. In this feature, SciencePoles examines the…
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The ABCs of the IPY 2007-2008
01.09.2006
The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 has adopted the slogan "Polar Science - Global Impact" as the IPY will be an interdisciplinary and internationally coordinated research campaign, expected to usher in a new era of polar science. The international scientific community is eagerly anticipating its start in March 2007, as…
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Connecting Arctic Sea Ice and Tibetan Plateau Snow Cover
07.06.2006
Rising global temperatures are melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau at an increasingly rapid rate. This may have caused many serious flooding occurrences in the past decade and could contribute to future serious water shortages (and other ecological problems). In response to this growing problem, the Polar Research Institute of…
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Climate Change Impacts Differ for Little-Known Arctic and Antarctic Seafloor Life
15.05.2006
Sciencepoles talked to Dr. Julian Gutt, of Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute, just after his address, at the BEPOLES workshop, on "Climate-induced biodiversity shift in polar benthic communities?", which looked at how climate change might affect ecosystems on polar sea floors. Towards the end of 2006, Dr Gutt will lead a…
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Climate Change: The Essentials
21.12.2005
Climate change linked to global warming is a critical issue for polar scientists and researchers. The climate of the poles is changing faster than the rest of the world and what once seemed immutable aspects of the polar climate, such as Arctic sea ice at the North Pole, are now…
