Anchoring at the southwestern tip of Africa on 29 April against all odds, Ukraine’s Noosfera continues to seek refuge in the Mother City for the foreseeable future.
A small but high-profile Extinction Rebellion protest met the Cape Town return of a controversial Russian oil and gas seismic ship on Monday while the Democratic Alliance's Member of Parliament Dave Bryant said that 'rolling out the red carpet for these ships' is 'helping to prop up the Putin.
In the first public rebuke of Russian ‘exploration activities’ by a senior figure long active within Antarctic diplomacy, the American lawyer James Barnes says a Kremlin oil and gas seismic vessel set to arrive in Cape Town on Monday is ‘violating’ the mining ban he fought to introduce. ‘All’ A.
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits South Africa, a chorus of local and international campaigners have vowed to protest against the planned Cape Town arrival of the Kremlin’s Antarctic seismic ship, the Akademik Alexander Karpinsky. Despite a mining ban, the ship has built vast oil.
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.