Pole To Pole: Recent Episodes
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A journey to some of the world’s most remote and vulnerable regions for International Polar Year (2007-2008)
Veronika Meduna travels to Scott Base to join drillers and scientists as they unearth sediment cores from underneath the Ross Ice Shelf.
Join the ABC's Margo Foster aboard the icebreaker Aurora Australis as she travels to east Antarctica with an international group of scientists exploring marine biodiversity. The Southern Ocean and east Antarctica are often described as the black hole of biodiversity - the largest area of the planet that remains mostly unexplored and undescribed, but is expected to host a diverse community of creatures and plants highly adapted to their environment. The destination of the voyage is Commonwealth Bay, where the teams take samples of the water column and seabed as part of the Census of Marine Life.
Deutsche Welle's Irene Quaile takes you to some of the northern-most communities on the planet, including a research station on Spitsbergen in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago about halfway between Scandinavia and the North Pole. In the small town of Barrow, at the northern tip of Alaska more than 500 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the Inupiat people describe how climate change is affecting their traditional way of living off the ocean and to the rhythm of the sea ice.