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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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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History of Polar Research
25.05.2005
The history of polar research has always been intertwined with the great chapters of polar exploration, but looking beyond the national expeditions of the past, polar science is perhaps most indebted to the succession of International Polar Years (including an International Geophysical Year) organised in the last 125 years. Milestones…
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The Peoples of the Arctic: The First Victims of Global Warming
24.05.2005
We forget perhaps too easily that the Dolgans, Inuits, Saami and all other natives peoples of the Arctic are the first victims of climate change.
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Social Science Research Raises Its Profile
24.05.2005
Although Arctic social science research has flourished for many decades, it has also often had to work hard to make its voice heard in the wider, natural science-inclined, polar research community. However, with the advent of the 2007-2008 International Polar Year (IPY) and the dramatic effect which global climate change…
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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…
