The Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Finds Itself on Increasingly Thin Ice

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With nearly 600 specialists from 20 nations, the MOSAiC expedition is the most expensive Arctic expedition in history. Modeled after Fridtjof Nansen’s journey 127 years ago, researchers drifted toward the North Pole in an icebreaker to study everything from fish below the ice to the clouds above it. But the warming climate they went to study—and now the coronavirus—threaten to end their mission.

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