International Antarctic Conference at UCSB
Hiding out on the bottom of the world, Antarctica has long lived in the far recesses of public interest-garnering rare attention for its radical weather patterns, penguin occupants, and occasional exploratory tragedy. However, the continent’s relative anonymity has changed in recent years, and the ever-increasing and irrefutable realities of global warming have helped the world’s fifth-largest continent surge to the frontlines of public discourse on climate change.
