This Sky article would have us believe that the expedition is the first of its kind since the 1890’s.
In fact the Russians have been doing this for decades with drifting stations resupplied from the air and via nuclear powered ice breakers with helicopters.
What is so different about this science experiment is that they need to bring the ship with them, locked in the ice, because the ice is no longer stable enough, or thick enough, to support a long term drifting ice station. In decades past the Russian stations could survive multiple years before being flushed out of the Fram Strait.
In recent years though Russia has abandoned any attempt to have drifting ice stations because they have all broken up within 3-4 months. Losing the valuable instruments and scientific studies which are so sorely needed.
So now we have new drifting stations. They drift the ship which contains everything they need, fuel, housing, storage, heat, power, light. In short everything that used to sit on the ice will now sit on the ship. Which, because it floats, can’t be at risk.
Sky completely misses the fact that the very Climate Change they are going to study has made it necessary to use a ship to do the studying…
Unsurprisingly.