Into the Arctic
(WorldNews Environment)

Scientists prepare for Arctic conditions during a National Science Foundation-sponsored training session in Utqiagvik, Alaska. Photo: JR Ancheta / University of Alaska Fairbanks The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on the planet, with enormous implications for the future of global climate. This year, CU Boulder researchers will play a leading role in a historic expedition to study one of the Earth`s most remote environments firsthand. The unprecedented Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) will send a German icebreaker into Arctic waters, where it will freeze itself into the winter pack ice to drift for an entire year, allowing around...