Heading for the North Pole on Tara Polar Station's first expedition
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The Tara Polar Station departed from Lorient, France, embarking on its first expedition to drift with Arctic pack ice for over a year. The floating laboratory will study biodiversity and the impacts of climate change in the Arctic Ocean region.
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 impacts of climate change in the region.