You Have to Check Out This Amazing Discovery From the Arctic

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Researchers board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Polarstern icebreaker have returned from the “epicenter of climate change” with a trove of new data and some sobering news.

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00:00Scientists have just returned from the largest and most ambitious Arctic

00:07expedition ever, bringing home a vast trove of data which will shape climate

00:12research for generations to come. The mission, known as Mosaic, included 442

00:18researchers, teachers, and journalists from 37 countries. The crew spent more

00:23than a year aboard the Polstern icebreaker, drifting through the central

00:28Arctic while trapped in ice. While collecting samples, they encountered

00:32numerous challenges, from pressure changes causing mountains of ice to

00:36disappear without warning, to the danger posed by polar bears, including one that

00:41came too close and had to be scared off with a warning shot. The crew worked

00:46months on end in complete darkness and experienced temps as low as negative 40

00:52degrees Fahrenheit. Describing a chillingly beautiful world in the Arctic,

00:56expedition leader Marcus Rex deemed the mission a success with one sobering

01:02caveat.

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