Arctic expedition to investigate ’epicentre of climate change’ - Reuters
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RV Polarstern ship is pictured during the farewell ceremony in Tromso, Norway, September 20, 2019.
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Scientists from 19 countries are preparing to embark on a year-long expedition to the Arctic, the longest project of its kind, to better understand global climate change.
The icebreaker Polarstern is preparing to set sail from Tromsoe in northern Norway, allowing hundreds of rotating researchers to spend the next year close to the north pole.
“We want to go to the Arctic because it’s the epicentre of climate change,” Markus Rex, an atmospheric scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany who leads the project, told Reuters.
The expedition, called Mosaic, is the first opportunity climate researchers have had to study the Arctic during the winter season as it has lacked necessary icebreaker equipment.