Antarctica, 8 January 2013 — Three team
members from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
polar research station are the first humans to have ever visited and photographed a newly - discovered 9,000 - strong colony
of...
A photograph
of a
polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255
members of the National Academy
of Sciences decrying attacks on climate
research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.