Greenpeace Antarctica Tour 1997 |
Greenpeace's ship MV Arctic Sunrise continues its tour of Antarctica documenting the emerging signs of climate change in the frozen continent.
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Movies and
Photographs of Torgerson Island: |
Adelie penguin populations around Palmer Station have fallen from around 15,200 breeding pairs in 1975 to a current 9,200 pairs...
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Greenpeace find large cracks in the Larsen B Ice Shelf, suggesting its collapse is imminent. As early as 1968 the rapid breakup of ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula has been considered as a "sign that dangerous warming is beginning in Antarctica"...
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Photographs of the journey:
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The Greenpeace ice breaker MV Arctic Sunrise has successfully circumnavigated James Ross Island, a passage previously impossible due to a 200 metre thick ice shelf that joined the island to the Antarctic continent until 1995...
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Maps and Itinerary:
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Leaving from Ushuaia in southern Argentina, the four week tour will visually document the ongoing climatic and ecosystem changes that have been observed along the Antarctic Peninsula...
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State of the Ice:
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Antarctica: the world's last great pristine wilderness.
Wild seas and vast expanses of white, majestic icebergs...
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Polar Meltdown:
Movies
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The Earth's climate is changing. This is nowhere more
apparent than at the poles, where many areas are warming
at a rate two or three times the global average...
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Greenpeace in Antarctica:
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For the past 15 years, Greenpeace has campaigned for
Antarctica to be permanently and legally protected from
exploitation...
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The Politics of Global Climate Change:
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Human-induced climatic change, is
now recognised by politicians and scientists alike as a
serious global threat to the Earth...
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