Researchers on the world's biggest mission to the North Pole will return to dock, bringing home proof of a dying Arctic Ocean and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades
In this file photo taken on September 18, 2019 the German icebreaker and research vessel Polarstern is pictured at shore in Tromso, Norway.
The team of several hundred scientists from 20 countries have seen for themselves the dramatic effects of global warming on ice in the region, considered "the epicentre of climate change", according to mission leader Markus Rex. The researchers' observations have been backed up by US satellite images showing that in 2020, sea ice in the Arctic reached its second-lowest summer minimum on record, after 2012.
The researchers collected water samples from beneath the ice during the polar night to study plant plankton and bacteria and better understand how the marine ecosystem functions under extreme conditions. The mission was almost derailed by the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, with the crew stranded at the North Pole for two months.
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