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Polar Books - An International Polar Year Project

Multilingual Collection

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This is our collection of resources in languages other than English.

Bonus! Additional education and outreach resources that were produced for IPY are now being added to this resource library - these extra resource sets are marked **.

All resources are available for downloading and use for educational and non-commercial purposes. Please always credit the source of material used. 


Maps, Graphics & Presentations

Global Outlook for Ice and Snow presentation:

Russian Presentation (10 mb)

A set of 60 Power Point slides summarizing the book's findings, with photos, maps, graphics and speaker notes - for use in lectures and presentations - from Global Outlook for Ice & Snow


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Essays and Stories

Author's selections from Antártida: Introducción a un Continente Remoto

Selections from several chapters, providing an overview of Antarctica's physical setting, governance and issues (Spanish) from Antártida: Introducción a un Continente Remoto


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Science and Issues

Highlights of Global Outlook for Ice and Snow (pdf):  Arabic (30 mb)   Chinese (6 mb)   French(3 mb)   Norwegian (3 mb)   Russian (3 mb)   Spanish (3 mb)

Main findings from this UNEP assessment, prepared at the beginning of International Polar Year. Covers the Arctic, Antarctic and other regions of Earth dominated by ice and snow from Global Outlook for Ice & Snow 

UNEP Press Release: Arabic(156 kb)  Chinese (339 kb) French (43 kb)  Russian(206 kb)  Spanish (50 kb)

Prepared for World Environment Day, June 5 2007. Includes an overview of findings and quotes on the subject (pdf) from Global Outlook for Ice & Snow 



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Youth and Education

**International Polar Year Poster Series

Five attractive, ready-to-print posters produced for IPY, aimed at a high school level. Posters, maps and graphics are all downloadable in formats suitable for web use and for print. Poster topics: 1. The Polar Regions, 2. Climate Change and the Polar Regions, 3. Polar People, 4. Research in the Polar Regions, 5. Biodiversity and the Poles. In English and Norwegian. Produced by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.


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