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The book I A JOURNEY TO THE ANTARCTIC A scientist in the lost continent Tusquets Editores Collection Metatemas Barcelona, 2013 270 pages · 16 pages with b/w photos Metatemas is a collection published by Tusquets Editores and comprising over 130 thought-provoking titles that take a fresh look at the great themes of science and philosophy, opening up new horizons for our knowledge of the universe and of life —their history, forms and future. Metatemas takes up the most burning issues and theories, together with the world views of this century’s finest thinkers and scientists. Metatemas is directed by Jorge Wagensberg, director of Barcelona’s Science Museum. It brings together authors who have become classics of 20th century science (Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Jacques Monod, François Jacob, Robert Wiener) as well as others who are bringing us the main themes of 21st century scientific thought (Murray Gell-Man, Lyn Margulis, René Thom, Martin Rees, Richard Dawkins, Benoît Mandelbrot).
The book II The Antarctic continent constitutes a unique natural laboratory for studying and understanding the natural history of our planet and gaining some idea of the serious environmental risks we are beginning to face. This great expanse of sea, rock and ice in continual movement, where the mean temperature does not usually exceed zero degrees centigrade and that remained in virgin state up to the beginning of the last century, has for thousands of years been exercising a decisive regulating role on the global climate of the planet and serving as a home for prodigious life-forms that we are only just beginning to find out about. Many scientists worldwide have taken advantage of a tacit race on the part of various countries to participate in the development of sciences as multifarious as glaciology, the physical oceanography of its currents, the effects of accelerated climate change, the taxonomy of countless new species and the complex and unknown ecology of organisms that depend on ice for their survival. The biologist Sergio Rossi was called to participate in three polar research campaigns (the last in 2011), on board the German ice-breaker vessel Polarstern, the finest in the world. This book is the fruit of that exciting experience. In it, the author undertakes a detailed examination of fundamental issues related with the white continent: survival in such an extreme climate, the formation of the ozone hole, the effects of climate change on the organisms that inhabit its waters, the ecological deterioration caused by the permanent bases set up there, and the possibility (and dangers) of economic exploitation of the vast resources of all kinds that are concealed in the Antarctic. Having always been fascinated by these singular landscapes, Sergio Rossi also reconstructs some of the episodes that have marked the exploration of these territories, such as the dramatic race between Amundsen and Scott to conquer the South Pole, and Captain Shackleton’s odyssey to save his crew from certain death. The book leads us on an entertaining overview of all the problems and opportunities that the planet’s most forgotten continent offers us. A remote mass of ice upon which our future as a species depends and which we cannot continue to ignore for much any longer.
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