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Along years, Luc Hardy has travel all around the globe in the most remote and uncharted places in the service of science.

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CURACAO – AUGUST 2018

8 people coming from all over the world are joining together to explore the Curacao coral reef, to determine their current state and how we can protect them from doom.

Luc Hardy has been invited by David Kline (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) to sponsor this Coral Reef expedition in Curacao in August/September 2018.

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2017

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Column: Looking back at 2016 — looking forward at 2017

By Anne W. Semmes
Sentinel Columnist

If there is any portent that 2017 will be full of surprises it’s that on New Year’s Day I found myself in my birth town of Memphis, Tennessee sitting atop a 321-foot glass pyramid overlooking not the Nile but a foggy Mississippi River eating catfish while gazing at a giant catfish floating about in a tower of water, while celebrating the 90th birthday of a sister who’s broken the glass ceiling of a family of short lived people. [...] Read More


2016

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GHS students hear from local Antarctic explorer

November 30, 2016 | Greenwich time

By Emilie Munson

Documentary filmmaker Luc Hardy, a Cos Cob resident, speaks about his latest film "The Pursuit of Endurance" after a screening at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn. Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. Hardy's film [...] Read More


Greenwich Education Group holds screening of The Pursuit of Endurance

November 2, 2016 | Greenwich Post

Greenwich Education Group invites the public to a screening of The Pursuit of Endurance, a film that documents a new polar expedition that follows in the footsteps of the famous Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. [...] Read More


On My Watch: To Drone or Not To Drone

July 25, 2016 | Greenwich Sentinel

By Anne W. Semmes
Sentinel Columnist

I remember the moment when I arrived at the Byram Park osprey nest as a Connecticut Audubon Society osprey steward and saw a sight that sent my adrenalin rushing: hovering over the osprey nest was what looked like a war machine from a distant planet. [...] Read More


2015

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Greenwich explorer Luc Hardy on air this a.m.

March 17, 2015 | Greenwich Real Time

2014

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Cos Cob adventurer survives Antarctica.

Greenwich Time - December 1, 2014.


Greenwich’s Luc Hardy expedition, “On the Shoulders of Shackleton” stays stalled.

Greenwich Real Time - October 29, 2014.


Bitter wind keeps Greenwich explorer Hardy’s team from final traverse.

Greenwich Real Time - October 28, 2014.


Severe weather delays Greenwich explorer's Shackleton quest.

Greenwich Time - October 27, 2014.


Traveler plans Antarctic voyage.

Greenwich Time - October 5, 2014.


Explorer goes high tech via the use of drones

July 19, 2014 | CTPOST

By Anne W. Semmes

Adventurer, explorer and environmental advocate Luc Hardy has a new tool he's using in his travels -- drones with cameras mounted on them. [...] Read More


Mountain of evidence - Extreme weather during climb may suggest climate change in Iran.

Greenwich Time - June 10, 2014.


Last chance to see: Disappearing glaciers in the 'Mountains of the Moon'

CNN - April 3, 2014 

2011-2013

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environment: frozen frontiers

Financial Times, February 6, 2013 | By: Pilita Clark

North Pole wrap-up: Last skiers via Barneo off the Arctic Ocean

Explorersweb - April 26, 2011 | By Correne Coetzer

2008

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Young Arctic Ambassadors meet Gorbachev to express concerns about Climate Change

Moscow - November 21st, 2008.

Moscow – On Friday 21st November, Green Cross International Founding President Mikhail Gorbachev did pay tribute to an international coalition of children, who have been particularly active in alerting the public about critical environmental issues endangering the Arctic. Aïnhoa Hardy, Flaam Hardy and Beth Idlout (who came all the way from Nunavut, Canada) presented the results of the expedition to President Gorbachev at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. The young adventurers each received a “Young Ambassador” award from Mr. Gorbachev’s directly, recognizing their contribution to the fight against climate change. Not present at the ceremony but equally involved were other members of the Pax Arctica expedition 2008: Kuria Mwaura, Mark Tosi, Olympia Nagel-Caland, and the Zangrillo sisters, Amber, Ashley and Alexa.

Here is a photo and video summary of the event: © Sagax / Pax Arctica

 

RAPID RETREAT - ICE SHELF LOSS ALONG CANADA'S ELLESMERE COAST.

NASA Earth Observatory - September 5th 2008.


SAGAX EXPEDITIONS, en association avec Green Cross International et Global Green USA, pilote le projet Pax Arctica prévu sur 3 ans, de l'été 2008 à l'été 2010.

 

 

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