EventA French‑built Tara polar station leaves Kirkenes, Norway in August on an eight‑month drift across the central Arctic Ocean. The 26‑m vessel is crewed by six scientists and six sailors and designed to freeze into pack ice, overwintering during the polar night while gathering data on rapid warming, pollution impacts and ecosystem changes before irreversible shifts.
Scientists from Tara Ocean Foundation have launched a floating laboratory into the central Arctic Ocean, where it will drift collecting data on how climate breakdown and pollution are affecting marine life.
A French‑built floating laboratory, Tara polar station, will leave Kirkenes in August for an eight‑month drift through the central Arctic Ocean, collecting data on how rapid warming and pollution are reshaping the region’s ecosystems before irreversible change.
