A team of researchers drifted for five months in 2015, with polar ice and their ship tethered to an ice floe. Watch the video…
They collecting data to help them better understand how the loss of sea ice will affect the planet.
The air above the Arctic Ocean has warmed on average about 5°F in the past century—more than twice the global average—and sea ice covers less and less of it. Most researchers study the ice during the summer. This team, battling bone-chilling cold, tracked it from when it formed in winter until it started melting in spring. And occasionally found time to kick a soccer ball around the floe.
PRODUCER: Shannon Sanders
VIDEOGRAPHER: Nick Cobbing
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