Arctic challenges

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.

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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.