Peace on Ice

Fact # 4058|This year in science, International Week of Science

This week (9 to 15 November) is the UN’s International Week of Science and Peace, and Antarctica shows what that looks like in numbers. The Antarctic Treaty grew out of an 18-month project in which scientists from 12 nations worked together on the ice, and in 1959 those 12 countries signed up to keep the continent for peaceful purposes only. Today, 34 national Antarctic programmes run research facilities there, and South Africa is one of 29 countries with a vote on how the continent is run.

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