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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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…
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A Warming Environment for Antarctic Marine Species
31.10.2005
After his recent interview by BBC NEWS for an article entitled 'Antarctic species feel the warmth', SciencePoles has put further questions to Professor Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey to try and shed more light on his research and the effect of warming sea temperatures on Antarctic marine species.
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Flora and Fauna: The Essentials
27.10.2005
The Arctic and Southern Oceans may be comparable in the abundance and adaptation methods of the species they harbour in their waters, but the flora and fauna of the polar lands could not be more different. Whereas Antarctica is a continent on which the largest land based animal is a…
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High Latitude People: The Human Dimension of the Polar Regions
26.08.2005
The human dimension of the Arctic and the Antarctic could not be more different. Whereas the circumpolar regions surrounding the Arctic Ocean have been inhabited for millennia by a host of indigenous communities, the Antarctic continent has never had any indigenous human inhabitants and was only discovered and first stepped…
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Polar Flora and Fauna Facing up to Major Climate Warming
24.05.2005
According to the different climate models developed by researchers and confirmed by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the poles are the regions of the world where climate change is and will be the most rapid. This development is not without impact on the organisms living in these…
