Antarctica: a trip to the end of the world to understand the future world
epaselect epa09685511 A picture taken from a penguin on the ocean shore in Fildes Bay, near the Professor Julio Escudero Base, on Rey Jorge Island, located in the Chilean Antarctic territory, 18 December 2021 (Issued 14 January 2022). Known in the collective imagination as 'the end of the world', Antarctica is today the Earth's thermometer: a vast frozen territory in which scientists are investigating the effects of climate change that will have consequences throughout the planet. EPA/ALBERTO VALDES