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Antarctica's Tourists Are Turning into Citizen Scientists to Clean Up the Continent

By Mark Johanson, CNN

Travelers to Antarctica always remember the first place they planted their feet on the frozen continent. For me, it was Portal Point, a narrow tip of land jutting westward from

Wednesday 17 March 2021 Hilde Fålun Strøm didn’t realise it was a polar bear at first. Reaching the crest of the ridge on her snowmobile, she could make out Bamsebu, the remote trapper’s cabin where she and her expedition partner, Sunniva Sorby, were spending the long, dark months of the Arctic winter. But as she peered through the blackness of the February afternoon, the familiar shape of the hut appeared to be hidden behind what looked like a large snowdrift. For the first time, the pair had decided to leave their dog, a two-year-old Alaskan Malamute called Ettra, behind when heading ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the University of San Diego press release. Study tracking the U.S. population of soupfin sharks...