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• ‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

  15-06-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected areaThe harsh temperatures, treacherous currents and shifting pack ice of the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea, which crushed and sank his ship, Endurance, in 1915, led Ernest Shackleton to describe it as the “worst portion of the worst sea in the world”.For more than a century, the inhospitable cond
  
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• Country diary: Our island’s wandering wallabies come at a cost | Tim Earl

  15-06-2026 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Ballaugh, Isle of Man: As I discover, spotting one of these marsupials isn’t hard. The problem is how to manage themWalking through Ballaugh Curraghs, a marshland in the north of the island, I’m taking part in a favourite island pastime: spotting red-necked wallabies. Creeping through the stands of willows, I soon see a grey shape with beady eyes and pricked up ears watching me, unafraid. Another appears and I check for the ultimate sighting … a joey poking out from a pouch, b
  
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