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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Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Data to Improve Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
25.12.2008
As the climate changes in the Arctic, indigenous communities living in the Far North are seeing an impact on the environment around them. As these communities depend heavily on living natural resources such as fish, beluga whale, seals and other animals as a primary source of subsistence, any impact climate…
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CAML Observing Top Predators at Sea Onboard the Ivan Papanin
03.07.2008
In December 2007, the Russian "ice-class" ship Ivan Papanin left Cape Town, bound for Antarctica. The vessel carried the 120 containers with all the elements for the construction of the Princess Elisabeth station in East Antarctica. Onboard, were the Russian crew, a dozen military officers, one photographer, and two Belgian…
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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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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…
