A floating research station shaped like a giant aluminum igloo has departed from France on a groundbreaking Arctic mission. The Tara Polar Station left the port of Lorient on Sunday to drift with polar ice for months, studying how climate change is transforming one of Earth’s most vulnerable regions.
The unusual vessel will anchor itself in sea ice in a controlled manner and drift at roughly 10 kilometers per day. Scientists plan to collect over 10,000 samples from water,…
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