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Latest insights into our latest mission to the Arctic.

Canada’s Arctic ice shelves have almost halved in size over the last six years.
Summer 2011 marks the second lowest sea ice extent on record

Scott’s Terra Nova

January 17, 2012

Today is the centenary of Capt. Scott’s arrival at the South Pole. It is easy to forget that Scott’s Terra Nova expedition was largely a scientific expedition.

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Oliver Wurl science paper

November 28, 2011

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The launch of the BBC’s Frozen Planet series may prove to be the tipping point that we will one day look back on as the time when the global community began to accept the sensitivity and scale of the natural world’s response to escalating human activity.

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Arctic Unknowns

October 17, 2011

The Arctic is warming twice as fast the rest of the planet and has often been described as the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for the health of the rest of the planet.

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Arctic Ice Shelves

September 30, 2011

Traditionally Ward Hunt Island, at the top of Ellesmere Island, has been the starting point for expeditions to the North Geographic Pole.

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Pre-Satellite Data

September 22, 2011

Recent headlines have suggested that 2011 is the second lowest sea ice extent since 1979, when satellites first began gathering data on the Arctic sea ice.

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Highlights 2011

September 7, 2011

It’s been a few months now since the Catlin Ice Base was dismantled and the explorers were picked up. Here are some of the highlights from this years Survey.

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Ice Base Imagery

August 23, 2011

Martin Hartley is one of the world’s leading expedition and adventure travel photographers and specializes in documenting the most inaccessible areas on the planet.

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Train Like An Explorer

August 15, 2011

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (one of the survivors from Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition) famously said “Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”

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Data Going Global

August 2, 2011

Scientists worldwide can access data collected on the Catlin Arctic Survey, thanks to colossal online databases. Science programmes manager Dr Tim Cullingford explains. “As Catlin Ice Base field samples are turned into data by the researchers back in their land laboratories…

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