The Arctic has many challenges. Tourism is a major source of income as is trade through the ice infested waters of the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage.
The Arctic: Dynamic Tools and Infrastructure
It is vital that researchers are deployed safely, and new systems are constantly being deployed - such as the RRS (Royal Research Ship) Sir David Attenborough, CryoSat 2, autonomous vehicles and computer modelling - to understand the past and predict the future.
Postcard from the edge
There is a difference between ecotourism and sustainable tourism and the effects, both good and bad, on the ecosystem and the people living there. Arctic tourism is booming!
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Troubled Waters
The nature and extent of sea ice changes both annually and over a longer period of time, perhaps due to the effects of climate change. The lives of the people who work in Arctic waters are dependent on these changes.
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