Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Victoria E. Murden, a third-year divinity student, trekked 740 miles on skis across Antarctica to the South Pole last week, becoming one of two women ever...
Murden, who did research on Antarctica before going there, also participates in activities here in Cambridge. She is a member of the Divinity School Student Executive Committee, has participated in projects to help the homeless and has organized teas for divinity students...
...such environmentally benign substitutes as butane, the chemical burned in cigarette lighters.) But the rest of the world continued to use CFC-based aerosol cans, and overall CFC production kept growing. The threat became far clearer in 1985, when researchers reported a "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica. Although the size of the hole varies with the seasons and weather patterns, at times Antarctic ozone has been depleted by as much as 50% in some spots. As a result of this disturbing development, 24 nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, met in Montreal two summers...
...could be something else. During the past decade, at least eight nations, including the U.S., have conducted seismic explorations of Antarctica's continental shelf. But even if recoverable quantities of oil are discovered, formidable obstacles, including icebergs sometimes as large as the state of Massachusetts, would stand in the way of setting up drilling rigs...
Initialed on June 2, the new agreement is supposed to protect the continent's delicate environment. All 20 members of the governing group will have to approve the opening of any part of Antarctica to mineral exploration, and a series of applications and approvals will be required before development is even considered. The accord will take effect only after 16 of the 20 sponsors formally approve its terms, a process that will probably extend well into next year. Even so, many environmentalists oppose any thought of disturbing the frigid region. The treaty "is a sellout of the environment to mining...