Chinese head to Canadian Arctic

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

A scientific expedition to the Canadian Arctic, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will leave Beijing next week.

The expedition plans to investigate climatic changes, according to Guo Wang, a researcher from the CAS and the expedition’s leader. Wang said the team will fly to Vancouver and then head north.

Team members will collect spores from the air and soil while in the High Arctic, to record environmental changes in the region over the past 40,000 years.

“Spores contained in strata of varying ages are very good indicators of environmental variations over time,” Wang told the China Daily newspaper.