Catlin Arctic Mission Runs Into Bad Weather

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All Images from Catlin Arctic Survey It’s not easy being an Arctic explorer–here’s a picture of one en route to the north pole to examine the effect of climate change. With daily temperatures of -40C, it is cold and miserable. The Catlin Arctic Survey mission, consisting of three hardy Brits–two men and a woman, set out on February 28 and will be travelling about 600 miles

on foot to the north pole. Their goal: to ascertain how long the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover will remain a permanent feature of our planet. However the extreme weather conditions that they have encountered have disabled much of the equipment that was to be used to measure ice thi…

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Catlin Arctic Mission Runs Into Bad Weather



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