The idea of creating extensive marine reserves in the Southern Ocean, around Antarctica, seems like a no-brainer.
The reserves would protect what is still the most pristine aquatic ecosystem in existence, and they would extend to the ocean some of the international protection that the continent enjoys: the recognition that the south polar region is a world treasure, off limits to the frenzy of resource extraction playing out across the rest of the planet.
In July, at the most recent meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Bremerhaven, Germany, there was a nearly giddy sense of optimism that, after repeated failures, the proposal would finally pass. But it failed again, thanks largely to Russia and Ukraine, who raised unfounded legal objections. And while not completely caving in, fishing nations like China, Norway and Japan called for smaller reserves and a “sunset clause” that would allow for future exploitation and essentially render the whole idea of a permanent reserve meaningless.
All this has led the staunchest supporters of the original 875,000-square-mile proposal — chiefly the United States and New Zealand — to do exactly the wrong thing. Instead of going into the next month’s meeting in Hobart, Australia, with renewed determination, the two countries announced last week that they would agree to shrink the proposed reserves by 40 percent, in the belief that something is better than nothing.
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Antarctica is home to Earth’s largest concentration of meteorites — so many that over 60 percent of meteorite finds originate there. But global warming is endangering Antarctica’s meteorites, and a ...
- Irresistable Antarcticaon April 26, 2024 at 1:14 pm
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- Antarctica's Terror Bird Was an Apex Predator of the Eocene Epochon April 26, 2024 at 8:30 am
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- Ozone hole over Antarctica worst since 1970son April 26, 2024 at 12:45 am
Scientists are warning Antarctica's animals and plants are being exposed to twice as much UV radiation as they were in the 1970s.
- Active volcano in Antarctica spews tiny crystals of gold worth $6,000 a dayon April 25, 2024 at 6:53 am
Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat amid the frozen landscape of Antarctica.
- After Witnessing Climate Change Effects in Antarctica, Expert Calls for Stronger Conservation Actionon April 25, 2024 at 5:05 am
Dr. Cassandra Brooks—an assistant professor of environmental studies and a faculty fellow with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who has been a ...
- Antarctica Volcano Spits $6000 Worth in Gold Every Dayon April 23, 2024 at 10:33 pm
An active volcano in Antarctica is shooting $6,000 in gold dust into the air every single day, NASA’s Earth Observatory revealed last week.
- Antarctica’s melt season ends with not one, but two bangson April 23, 2024 at 7:27 am
In late February and early March, two record melt events for that time of year occurred on the Antarctic Peninsula. Overall, however, the 2023 to 2024 melt season was slightly below the 45-year ...
- West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters todayon April 23, 2024 at 3:07 am
Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ice. This could happen again – unless we cut emissions fast.
- 'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?on April 22, 2024 at 9:30 am
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
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- 1996 Beaver Local graduate named Marine Forces Reserve Sailor of the Yearon April 26, 2024 at 11:03 pm
Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Clutter, a 1996 graduate of Beaver Local High School, was recently named Sailor of the Year for Marine Forces Reserve, a unit of 45,000 personnel based out of New ...
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(At Marine, which follows a military model and is affiliated with the U.S. Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program, the Board of Governors is akin to a Local School Council.) When ...
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A Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune died during a training exercise in Carteret County, North Carolina prompting an investigation.
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- Brazil braces for worst coral bleaching everon April 17, 2024 at 2:39 pm
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- Marines in Uniform Were Photographed at Mar-a-Lago Event. Service Says It Was for a Veterans Charity.on April 15, 2024 at 1:01 pm
The service said that reserve members from the 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, or ANGLICO, color guard attended the April 11 event hosted by the Grey Team, a nonprofit veterans organization.
- Viral Photo of Uniformed Marines at Mar-a-Lago Was from Nonpolitical Eventon April 15, 2024 at 12:32 pm
The presence of U.S. Marines in full uniform at a recent Mar-a-Lago event raised eyebrows online, but the Marine Corps clarified to Newsweek that the appearance was approved and nonpolitical.
- This is why Marines were at Mar-a-Lagoon April 15, 2024 at 11:10 am
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