Thursday, August 27, 2015

Polar bears throw expedition plans upside down – Focus on News

The polar bears were exactly where they wanted to land. Biologist at the University of Groningen (RUG) and initiator of the expedition. Maarten Loonen against Broadcasting North: “Then that’s about it.”

The scientists are in an uncharted area on the island Edgeøya on the east side of archipelago Spitsbergen

was in 1968. there is also a Dutch expedition in the area, but since then the island has changed greatly. Wages at the announcement: “The island has changed enormously in the years thereafter. Glaciers retreated. Places where there was lots of vegetation are now bare. But in places that were once almost barren, now grow many mosses. Also, there are now many more whales, because there is now no longer be so heavily hunted. “

The group has taken in recent days hundreds of samples, for example, different moss has animals and birds counted and even a new bug discovered .. It will take months to several years before the research results are processed and can be drawn.

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