Even with this year's extreme loss, there's still a wide range of predictions
among polar scientists of how soon the northernmost ocean will be «ice free» in late summer.
But there is little closure for loved ones, and the loss of these men still reverberates through the environmental organizations that supported their work and
among polar scientists whose research was aided by the data they collected.
Not exact matches
«You have closer communication than ever
among the global science community now,» says Robin E. Bell, a
polar research
scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
Cannibalism is not unknown in
polar bears - but
scientists have recently observed that the behaviour is on the increase
among the animals