Polar News and Notes Education

One of the trading routes that collectively made up the famed Silk Road of ancient times is under threat from melting glaciers in nearby mountains. The Hexi corridor in Gansu province, China, now experiencing regional floods, will not be the only ancient site endangered by glaciers according to researchers into global warming.
According to an […]

I had the pleasure of talking to Tom Lewis —musician, seasoned naval crewman, and grand storyteller who travels to Europe, Canada and the United States sharing his songs about the sea.
In preparation for our May 2009 podcast, I was looking at the Ocean Literacy Network website. This network consists of […]

Last night, my husband and I went to see Earth, the first in the Disney Nature series. If you haven’t seen a trailer, the film follows three animal families (polar bears, elephants, and humpback whales) across the Earth and over the course of a year.
Fans of the Planet Earth series will recognize much of the […]

Benjamin Leigh Smith, an Arctic explorer in the late 1800’s, was leading his crew back home to England when his ship hit ice and started to sink. With winter approaching, the passage they were traveling through became impassable, so the crew had to set up camp and wait out the long winter before venturing […]

“The work must continue” was the message when the organizers of the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) presented the main research findings at a ceremony in Geneva in February. More than 160 projects involved researchers in more than 60 countries during the two-year scientific campaign focused on the polar regions.
IPY was a joint venture […]