Insight #30: Cassandra Brooks on marine protected areas and international geopolitics in Antarctica
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Climate Change in Antarctica
Penguins are one of the species that are just moving south. They need cold waters, but they'll get to a point where they can't move further south. In areas around the antarctic peninsula, which are rapidly warming, these penguins are being driven out by other species. And at the same time, you just could see the drastic reductions in ice that are happening. This is causing, you know, impacts, troughout the whole ecosystem in terms of productivity. It's icumulative. We have all these things happening at once. But i think it gives the system the best chance of being resiliant if we actually m close it off to other human impacts.
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