Show threadNorobiik @[email protected]Mar 29, 2024

The base is a working complex of corrugated-iron housing and laboratories, machinery, tanks and radio masts. A wooden church, with the dimensions and bright colours of a beach hut, overlooks the generator building. When the research team at #VernadskyBase are not defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the #ClimateCrisis.

‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of #Ukraine’s #AntarcticScientists | #Antarctica
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/ukraine-antarctic-scientists-climate-crisis-vernadsky-base

‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists

When the team at Vernadsky base are not back defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisis

The Guardian
Ruth MottramNov 8, 2022
Totally in awe of our #Ukraine partners in the #PolarRES project: running #ClimateModels right up to their building being damaged by missiles, the ongoing power cuts in #Kyiv and elsewhere due to Russian attacks on #energy infrastructure now also affecting their work.
We need to keep supporting them + Ukraine generally as they push back the Russian invasion. I wish I could do more, but working with #AntarcticScientists from Ukraine makes me aware of how privileged I am to live in #safety