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Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice

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Voyage to the end of the world: floating lab to explore life in Arctic adrift in ice
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An eight-month expedition will set off soon from Norway on a mission to find new species before the climate crisis and pollution changes the northern ocean for everSix scientists and six crew will travel next month to Kirkenes, a remote Arctic town in Norway near the Russian border, to begin an odyssey to one of the most inhospitable, inaccessible and least-studied regions on Earth. There, they will climb onboard a futuristic, floating laboratory – the French-built Tara polar station.They will e

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