A team of scientists have gathered climate change data from somesensors fitted on the head of seals and were able to get key details about areas that are difficult to reach.

The team received data from remote, icy seas collected over the previous decade. The data will be made available to the scientific community freely through a portal launched earlier this week. The Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole-to-pole portal will offer data on parts of the planet that nor not accessible to humans.

The scientists tapped into the habitat of seals, such as ice-bound Polar Regions and collected valuable data. They have been able to build up a detailed picture of those areas that are difficult to reach and monitor. The sensors designed and made at the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews were attached to seals. Using these sensors, researchers from across the world were able to collect information on the conditions of the world's most remote oceans. The seals equipped with the sensors has produced nearly 400,000 environmental profiles creating the world's largest oceanographic database for polar oceans.