Tag: Antarctica

Open newsletter – february 22, 2022

AFGHANISTAN The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked...

Cold front: Antarctica and its military future (Claire Young, The Interpreter)

Book Review: The Future of Antarctica: Scenarios from Classical Geopolitics, by J McGee, D Edmiston and M Haward (Springer, 2022) For a place that is...

Australia’s scrapping of Antarctic aerodrome could pave the runway for China (Elizabeth Buchanan, The Strategist)

While environmentalists have welcomed the Australian government’s decision to abandon the Davis aerodrome project in Antarctica, China is likely now drafting its own year-round...

Antarctica in the Grey Zone (Elizabeth Buchanan, AIIA)

The absence of overt conflict in Antarctica does not mean cooperation is thriving. Missing the elements of coercion and mistaking cooperation for a static...

Antarctica – Antarctica could reach its climate ‘tipping point’ this century – but we can stop it (WEF)

Andrea Dutton, Julie Brigham-Grette The Arctic is losing ice as global temperatures rise, which is causing the risk of flooding to increase around the...

(Antarctica) The more we learn about Antarctica, the greater the urgency to act on climate change (WEF)

John Letzing A number of troubling discoveries have been made related to Antarctica. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/the-more-we-learn-about-antarctica-the-clearer-the-need-to-fight-climate-change/

(Antarctica/Australia/China) Eyes on the prize: Australia, China, and the Antarctic Treaty System (Lowy Institute)

CLAIRE YOUNG Despite China’s increasing assertiveness in Antarctica, the Antarctic Treaty System is not failing and Australia should refrain from geostrategic panic https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/eyes-on-prize-australia-china-and-antarctic-treaty-system

ANTARCTICA – Scientists to take research trip to study impact of giant floating iceberg (Al Arabiya)

File photo of an iceberg in the western Antarctic peninsula. (File photo: AFP) A team of scientists will set off next month on a research...