About poles, polar bears and climate change

  • 01/02/2011

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Penguin tales: A weeklong exhibition on the polar region now on at the National Science Centre on Bhairon Road in the Capital. The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi in collaboration with the National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Science, Goa, and the Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso, are hosting a weeklong photo, installation and text exhibition on the polar region at National Science Centre on Bhairon Road here these days. The polar exhibition showcases Norway's polar history, expertise in polar science and challenges ahead. It seeks to take visitors on a journey from the polar adventures of Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen at the beginning of the past century to the daily life of Norwegian scientists who survived in the