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...Between July and October every year, humpbacks migrate from Antarctica to the 171-island archipelago to give birth and nurse their calves?and Whaleswim tours make straight for the nurseries. "It's a truly life-changing experience to watch a young, 12-m calf suckling its 40-m mother just meters away," says Rae Gill, Whaleswim's tour director. "The trust these wild animals have in us is humbling in itself. I know of no other wild animals that allow this." Tours start from...
...restore your sense of wonder in northern Tonga. To minimize environmental impact, each tour has a limit of 12 people, of whom only four (plus a qualified marine researcher-cum-guide) are allowed in the water at any one time. Between July and October every year, humpbacks migrate from Antarctica to the 171-island archipelago to give birth and nurse their calves - and Whaleswim tours makes straight for the nurseries. "It's a truly life-changing experience to watch a young, 12-m calf suckling its 40-m mother just meters away," says Rae Gill, Whaleswim's tour director...
Global warming, caused in part by the burning of oil and gas in factories and cars, is traumatizing polar regions, where the complex meteorological processes associated with snow, permafrost and ice magnify its effects. A study published in Science last week reported that glaciers in West Antarctica are thinning twice as fast as they did in the 1990s. In Alaska the annual mean air temperature has risen 4°F to 5°F in the past three decades--compared with an average of just under 1°F worldwide. As a result, the state's glaciers are melting; insects are destroying vast...
Picture an ocean as vast as continental Australia. Then double it. You're looking at an area larger than either the Arctic Ocean or Antarctica. It's certainly not as chilly as those two extremities, but that's the size of the ocean and continental shelf over which Australia claims control. While a 15 million-sq.-km maritime zone cannot possibly be protected in the usual sense, the fact that this briny buffer exists offers some peace of mind in an era of terrorism and illegal immigrants. A tight border-control regime means shuffling money, people, electronics, boats and airplanes...
...trying to take advantage of at least one millionth of what Harvard has to offer (there’s so much here it’s overwhelming, not just in the arts, but in general). In ten years, perhaps I will be starting a theater company of penguins in Antarctica or something. Seriously, I really have no idea. Whatever I do probably won’t be in acting because it’s so hard to find work. Besides, I’d rather keep that part of myself separate from my work, and save acting as something...