Researchers Freeze Ship Into Arctic Ice For Year-Long Study On Climate Change

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An international team of researchers aboard German research vessel Polarstern will spend a year studying Arctic climate (Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute, AWI / Stephan Schoen)

In 1893, Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen deliberately lodged his wooden ship in the sea ice north of Siberia, hoping that its natural drift would take him to the North Pole. Though the Norwegian scientist failed to reach his desired destination, his three-year-long, 2,000-kilometer journey into the North Atlantic Ocean revealed important data about the then-mysterious Arctic Ocean. Now, an international team of researchers have embarked on a similar journey for a groundbreaking climate change study of the Arctic.

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