‘The #Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save #Shackleton’s #Endurance

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the #climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area

^ interesting #conservation challenge

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/15/shackleton-endurance-shipwrecks-global-heating-antarctic-underwater-protected-area

#science #seafloor #shipwreck #ecology #climateCatastrophe

‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area

The Guardian