Article 1A2E7 Let’s not turn the Arctic into an adventure playground | Suzanne Goldberg

Let’s not turn the Arctic into an adventure playground | Suzanne Goldberg

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Suzanne Goldenberg
from Environment | The Guardian on (#1A2E7)
As polar ice retreats, tourists are rushing in, many claiming to bear witness to climate change. But their expeditions are only speeding the region's destruction

Every year at about this time, a Russian cargo plane deposits many tonnes of equipment on an ice floe one degree off the north pole. There, at the 89th parallel, engineers begin construction of a private ice air strip and base camp for scientists, adventurers and, more than ever, wealthy tourists.

Related: Northwest Passage, Canada: going with the floe

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