Marine reserves for Southern Ocean saved with Britain\'s help
Marine reserves for Southern Ocean saved with Britain's help
Nature guards the Southern Ocean well. Frozen winds howl around the continent,
building the biggest waves on the planet. Beneath lurks life unlike anywhere
else on Earth, unseen to early seafarers except for terrifying glimpses of
squid as big as their ships. Fifty years ago the world formed the Antarctic
Treaty to protect the polar continent. Now Britain is leading an
international push to protect the unseen depths and the life — both known
and unknown — that the Southern Ocean contains.
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