The great polar meltdown

For six months, a Norwegian research vessel has drifted through polar ice fields trying to understand why the North Pole is heating up faster than anywhere else. Their documented expedition can be seen in a new exhibition at the UCD Science Centre

A curious polar bear checks out the instruments
Above: Woosok Moon and Joo-Hong Kim install atmospheric monitoring equipment on the sea ice surface, a short distance from the Lance

The report has raised the alarm and delivered a direct message that the world economy needs radical change almost immediately, in order to prevent a series of events which scientists previously believed were more distant possibilities.

The release of the report has also coincided with a new photographic exhibition taking place in the UCD ...