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2023
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2022
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- Snow cover in the Antarctic interior has decreased over the past 5,000 years, with a marked increase since the Industrial Revolution -Clarified from ice cores in the Dome Fuji area, Antarctica-March 31, 2023
- Testing Out a New Ceilometer that Can Distinguish Between Ice and Liquid CloudsNovember 17, 2022
- Using Small Drones to Measure Wind Speeds in the Polar RegionsOctober 28, 2022
- Getting to The Bottom of The Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Investigation of Heat Movement near The North Pole and Under the Arctic Sea IceAugust 30, 2022
- Towards Better and Sustainable Weather Forecasting in the Southern HemisphereAugust 23, 2022
- Asteroid Ryugu is a drifter from the outer Solar System: Results from the Hayabusa2 Phase-2 Curation Kochi Team published in Nature AstronomyAugust 18, 2022
- Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Lowest Ever RecordedJune 15, 2022
- Seal whiskers, the secret weapon for huntingJune 14, 2022
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- The 14th Symposium on Polar Science will be held on 14-17 November 2023March 30, 2023
- The 2nd ArCS II Public Lecture will be held on March 11, 2023February 1, 2023
- The academic journal “Polar Science” features Energy and Buildings in cold & Polar regionsDecember 28, 2022
- Dr. Ryuho Kataoka's "Extreme Space Weather" is publishedMay 13, 2022
- Dr. Asgeir Brekke (Norway), former Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Polar Research, awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck RibbonMay 13, 2022
- The 13th Symposium on Polar Science will be held with an Online Meeting System from 15-18 November 2022.April 28, 2022
2021
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- Melting Arctic glaciers see drop in fungi biodiversityMarch 31, 2022
- Humans and nature responsible for mid-20th century Arctic temperature changesMarch 31, 2022
- Low-Cost Drone Offers Opportunity to Expand Data Acquisition Coverage in Polar RegionsJanuary 7, 2022
- Antarctic oceanographers use seals to do research where ships fear to goJanuary 7, 2022
- First standardization of black carbon measurements in the ArcticDecember 17, 2021
- A Song of Ice and Cloud: Marine Aerosols from Southern Ocean Help Summer Ice Cloud GrowthDecember 10, 2021
- United Nations sea treaty should help protect penguins, researchers sayDecember 10, 2021
- Large semi-stationary eddies whip warm water toward melting East Antarctic ice shelfNovember 10, 2021
- Researchers track changes in Greenland ice core dust over the past 100 yearsNovember 9, 2021
- Twelfth century literature and space-age data help map 3,000 years of aurorasOctober 11, 2021
- How Do Higher Waves Cause More Ice Clouds? Research Expedition into Arctic Sea ExplainsSeptember 17, 2021
- Understanding Antarctic ice historic changes could reveal future changesAugust 23, 2021
- Scientists deploy albatrosses to track plastic pollutionAugust 6, 2021
- Elephant seal diving mystery solved: 24-hour feeding could be climate change sentinelJune 28, 2021
- New marine scale worm species first to provide evidence of male dwarfismJune 7, 2021
- Enabling simple assessment of the impact of observation data on weather forecast, and clarifying the contribution of Arctic observation data to improve seven-day North American weather forecastMay 14, 2021
- Psychological forest: What trees reveal about Antarctic researchersMarch 30, 2021
- Extinct Niobium Isotope Reveals the Long-Kept Secrets of the Solar SystemMarch 11, 2021
- Antarctic Peninsula Warming Up Due to Heat in Tasman SeaMarch 9, 2021
- Arctic Ocean Expedition Advances Climate ModelingJanuary 27, 2021
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- First demonstration of private 5G at Syowa Station in AntarcticaFebruary 25, 2022
- The Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research(ISAR-7)will be held in March 2023February 16, 2022
- Academic journal Polar Science features 40 years of India's activities in polar researchFebruary 4, 2022
- NIPR contributed to the 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM3), which was held in Tokyo, Japan, for the first time in Asia.August 10, 2021
- The 12th Symposium on Polar Science will be held with an Online Meeting System from 15-18 November 2021.July 28, 2021
- Polar Science ArCS special issue is publishedApril 12, 2021
- The science symposium of the Asian Forum for Polar Sciences (AFoPS) was held successfully onlineMarch 31, 2021
2020
Research Highlights
- Delayed Arctic ice advance tracked back to atmospheric conditions near Alaska months priorDecember 18, 2020
- Mystery of Siberian freshwater seal food choice solvedNovember 27, 2020
- Researchers provide most detailed and complete record yet of Earth's last magnetic reversalOctober 22, 2020
- Arctic weather observations can improve hurricane track forecast accuracyOctober 13, 2020
- On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flightOctober 5, 2020
- Japanese expedition identifies East Antarctic melting hotspotSeptember 10, 2020
- Birds of a feather flock together, but timing depends on typhoonsAugust 27, 2020
- Biologists discover new species of sea worm in the Southern OceanAugust 17, 2020
- New technique enables mineral ID of precious Antarctic micrometeoritesJuly 31, 2020
- Antarctic penguins happier with less sea iceJune 25, 2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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- Jellyfish and other gelata as food for four penguin species – insights from predator-borne videosSeptember 29, 2017
- Observations of Red Aurora over 1770 Kyoto Help Diagnose Extreme Magnetic StormSeptember 28, 2017
- Phoenicid Meteor Shower from Dead Comet Arises again after 58 YearsAugust 25, 2017
- EISCAT_3D, the new Arctic radar for space weather research gets go-ahead for constructionAugust 10, 2017
- Successful filming of fastest aurora flickeringAugust 10, 2017
- Charting the skies of historyJuly 5, 2017
- Climate instability over the past 720,000 yearsJune 29, 2017
- Determination of precise ratio of surface mass balance between two dome summit sites at Dome Fuji and Dome C in AntarcticaMay 2, 2017
- Two New Species of Fungus Discovered for the First Time in the History of the Japanese Antarctic Research ExpeditionMarch 31, 2017
- Mycoflora changes in areas of deglaciationMarch 31, 2017
- Additional Arctic weather data raises forecast accuracy of Japan cold waves10.3.2017
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