{"id":136343,"date":"2025-01-07T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T05:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/black-snow-emissions-and-bird-flu-how-antarctic-cruises-hurt-more-than-they-help\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T05:48:06","slug":"black-snow-emissions-and-bird-flu-how-antarctic-cruises-hurt-more-than-they-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/black-snow-emissions-and-bird-flu-how-antarctic-cruises-hurt-more-than-they-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Black snow, emissions and bird flu: How Antarctic cruises hurt more than they help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136343\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The presence of humans in this fragile, remote ecosystem comes with major risks. Antarctic tourism has boomed in recent years with the remote continent attracting record numbers of tourists. In 2024, an astonishing 122,000 people made the trip to Antarctica &#8211; a massive increase from the 44,000 visitors recorded in 2017. A vast majority of tourists travelling with the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) arrive by cruise ship. Just one per cent reach the continent by plane.<\/p>\n<p>Luxury cruises have made the destination accessible to a wider variety of people and it is now a firm bucket list adventure for many. There are regulations which control the frequency, duration and number of guests visiting any site in the region with no more than 100 people allowed to land at a site at any one time.<\/p>\n<p>While in cruising terms, a ship with less than 270 guests would normally be considered small, for the Antarctic any vessel with 150-270 passengers is considered large as not everyone can land at one time. Many luxury ships with more than 200 guests make more than one landing a day. The rapid increase in Antarctic tourism has left experts concerned about environmental consequences. Human presence in this fragile ecosystem comes with a myriad of different risks.<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists say the increase in tourism traffic is already having an impact in the Antarctic. Researchers from the University of Santiago de Chile have found that the blinding white frozen landscape of the continent is turning black. Snow surrounding tourist landing sites and research stations has been getting darker every year. They confirmed that this dramatic anomaly is being caused by black carbon produced by the ships, helicopters, planes, trucks and diesel generators humans bring to Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>Darker snow means snow melts faster, with researchers estimating that every visitor causes Antarctica to lose around 83 tonnes of snow. Researchers bring more vehicles so are undeniably having a greater impact but tourists too are adding to the problem. Carbon emissions from cruise ships are also a problem. The average tourist trip to Antarctica results in 5.44 tonnes of CO2 emissions per passenger, or 0.49 tonnes per passenger and day. It all contributes to global warming driving rising temperatures in the continent. Just this year, scientists observed a heatwave in Antarctica where temperatures reached 10C above average.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/01\/04\/black-snow-emissions-and-bird-flu-how-antarctic-cruises-hurt-more-than-they-help\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/01\/04\/black-snow-emissions-and-bird-flu-how-antarctic-cruises-hurt-more-than-they-help\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/black-snow-emissions-and-bird-flu-how-antarctic-cruises-hurt-more-than-they-help\/\">Black snow, emissions and bird flu: How Antarctic cruises hurt more than they help<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17485,575],"class_list":["post-136343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antarctic-cruises","tag-environmental-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}