A floating research station designed to drift with Arctic sea ice has left France to begin a major scientific mission that will study the rapidly changing polar region over the next two years.

Après plus d'un an et demi de préparation, douze scientifiques vont vivre cette expédition inédite à bord de cette "ISS du pôle Nord". Objectif : se laisser prendre plusieurs mois…

The Tara Polar Station left the port of Lorient on Sunday. For over a year, this floating laboratory will drift with the pack ice to study Arctic Ocean biodiversity and the…