António Guterres is in Antarctica this week, where he saw first-hand how climate change is impacting the world’s southernmost continent, which is mostly covered in ice.
Santiago de Chile, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, continued his tour of Antarctica today, where together with the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, he confirmed the damage caused by climate change in the so-called White Continent.
Kuala Lumpur: Prof Dr Justin Sentian of the Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), has been recognised as the first Malaysian to conduct winter research in Antarctica and to have spent the most time - seven months - in the icy continent.
Recent measurements in Antarctica have reflected the effects of global warming when an unprecedented 34°C temperature was detected, thus setting a new record, it was reported. The findings stemmed from sensors attached to rocks in Fildes Bay in the coastal zone.
By Alberto Valdes King George Island, Chilean Antarctica, Feb. 2 (EFE).- When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, altering our lives with long and disruptive lockdowns, few imagined that isolating oneself could be needed even in such remote spots as the planet’s deserts, space or Antarctica. But the virus has infiltrated the “white continent” and has …