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