Article 6J0Z5 Labour MP stirred by disappearing Antarctic ice and her father’s legacy

Labour MP stirred by disappearing Antarctic ice and her father’s legacy

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Rachel Hall
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Anna McMorrin says Labour absolutely determined' on net zero after visiting Antarctica and finding report by her father, a polar researcher

When Anna McMorrin MP visited the Antarctic as part of a government inquiry, she stumbled upon a report in the Rothera Research Station library that her father, a polar researcher, had written in 1962.

It described the Larsen ice shelf, a beautiful stretch of thousands of miles of thick, white, crystalline snow - which has now almost completely melted away.

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