UK scientists tackle the taboo subject of periods in polar research
This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.By Harriet BradshawBBC Climate & Science reporterYou're tied to co-workers, on a glacier, in icy conditions, and then you realise… it's that time of the month. What do you do? Dealing with your period during fieldwork in the Arctic or Antarctic can be a challenge.And yet talking about menstruation has remained taboo. It's why it is on the agenda for the UK Polar Network (UKPN), a voluntary organisation which represents more than 400 early career scientists, and which is piloting a new workshop to tackle the issue head on. "I've had so many of my friends and my peers come and say, 'God, I couldn't talk to anyone about this; I felt so uncomfortable; I felt scared at times'," explains Ellie Hona...