antarctica

“People can trample vegetation and soil communities that take decades to recover.” Researchers have also found that vacationers or other guests have inadvertently brought invasive species, such as annual bluegrass, to the continent. And Brooks has charted a direct correlation among the creating footprint on Antarctica and disturbed land—which is to say that, in the battle for knowledge and energy in Antarctica, the land itself is losing. Everyone is a visitor in Antarctica—no a single lives there permanently—but there’s normally a shifting crew of scientists about undertaking investigation. That’s since the continent, with its icy oceans, frigid temperatures, and uncommon...