In Part One of this investigation, Our Burning Planet charted the human noise pollution that may be hounding life inside the Southern Ocean, a climate-threatened wilderness ruled by a guarded club of geopolitical power players. In this sequel, we expose the yearslong failure by Antarctic states.
For decades, state officials, tourists, scientists and fisheries have noisily pushed into a sound-sensitive, ice-bound wilderness where some of Earth’s most endangered and iconic animals seek refuge. As the world’s polar vessels descend on the Southern Ocean for yet another summer of scientific.