Responding to the decision not to proceed with the merger of the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre, Vicky Wyatt, Greenpeace arctic campaigner said:
“The British Antarctic Survey is a wonderful institution. It is rightly world renowned and has done great work in helping us protect one of the most fragile and beautiful areas on the planet.
“The decision to abandon plans to dismantle it acknowledges the critical role that British science does and can play in protecting the polar regions. Right now, with the Arctic summer sea-ice melting at a record rate, and growing uncertainty over the effect of climate change on the Antarctic, we need Britain’s scientists more than ever.”
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