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Article: ANTARCTICA: A treaty protects the continent as a world resource, but there is tension amoung scientists environmentalists and tourists over who is the best custodian
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 28, 1995
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CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Globe reporter Usha Lee McFarling recently spent two
weeks in Antarctica observing the National Science
Foundation's $196 million research program.
LAST OF THREE PARTS
One continent, three visions.
The National Science Foundation considers Antarctica a long-term
global laboratory. Greenpeace activists envision the continent as a
"World Park," protected from the ravages of humans and the excesses
of scientists.
Meanwhile, in matching parkas and rubber Zodiacs, tourists are
riding, as one travel writer recently put it, "the first wave of mass
tourism to splash upon the shores of the last continent."
What is the future of the Earth's last continent? With three
significant ...