Air Liquide Foundation is to support two global warming scientific expeditions to the North Pole.
According to researchers from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean could completely dissolve during the summer months by the year 2040.
The high sensitivity of the Arctic to climate changes makes it an ideal testing ground for climate trends, and the data acquired on this region plays a major role in our understanding of the earth’s climate.
In the context of its philanthropic effort to promote scientific research aimed at preserving the earth’s atmosphere, Air Liquide Foundation is supporting two expeditions whose shared aim is to gather important data related to climate change for subsequent use by the global scientific community.
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