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...ATLAS OF THE NATURAL WORLD WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND ANTARCTICA...
...Huyghe is far from alone. His work is mainly the result of an intense collaborative process with artists, architects, designers and musicians. His most ambitious collaboration, A Journey That Wasn't, combines documentary-style film footage of his 2005 voyage to Antarctica, an operatic translation of the trip set in New York City's Central Park, a sculpture of an island discovered on the venture, a musical score based on that island's topography - and an animatronic penguin. All this is Huyghe's attempt to produce a dark, cold, strange "equivalent" of his Antarctic "elsewhere." The result is very different...
Frustrated by Japan's defiance of the IWC--and the nation's insistence on hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica--Greenpeace led a campaign this year to boycott goods sold by companies with a stake in Kyodo Senpaku, including Nippon Suisan Kaisha, better known as Nissui. The $4.3 billion conglomerate owns Gorton's, one of the largest suppliers of frozen seafood in the U.S. Late last month Kyodo Senpaku abruptly announced that Nissui and four other firms that held a stake in the company would donate their shares to "public interest" corporations, including the ICR. The firms...
...Queen has also subtly refurbished the most public aspect of her work - her interaction with ordinary people. She has never been naturally extroverted, perhaps a reaction to growing up so famous that as a child she had a territory named after her in Antarctica and was immortalized in Madame Tussaud's astride a pony. Her early friend and bridesmaid Pamela Hicks noted the unrelenting press of "intimate strangers" always peering in alongside motorcades. But over the years the Queen has learned to make encounters more enjoyable - and memorable. When she grants honors, she studies biographies of each recipient and writes...
...dark soil ?10% reflected by ocean water ?90% reflected by ice MELTING ICE RAISES SEA LEVELS INUNDATING LOW COASTAL AREAS WASHING ASHORE The ice at the North Pole is floating, so as it melts, the sea level won't change much. But the massive ice sheets over Antarctica and Greenland are another story. If both melted completely, sea levels could rise nearly 220 ft. (72 m). That's a worst-case scenario. But the melting is accelerating, and sea levels are projected to rise gradually, threatening low-lying communities Sources: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report...