Antarctica

No deal on huge Antarctic marine reserves

A bad news for the future of Antarctica:  International talks on establishing huge marine reserves in Antarctica have failed to reach a consensus… BBC News explains in its article: Russia blocked attempts by western countries to set up the protected areas in the Ross Sea and...

Sea Shepherd: defending the integrity of the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary

Paul Watson is the founder and president of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He recently wrote an article published on The Guardian website: I don’t think that there is a more isolated, more remote, or more forbidding place on this planet than where we find ourselves at this...