Battleground Antarctica: Melting ice, geopolitical heat? Westminster hears of simmering Antarctic 'mining' threat

During a new UK House of Commons inquiry into British South Pole interests, a leading academic has told MPs that Russian oil and gas surveys via Cape Town may raise questions about the vulnerable region’s future.

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