PAN report: Global Warming Images owner on his latest photo expedition to the Antarctic

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“Hi Will, just wanted to let you know, following your kind report on PAN, I have been contacted by a researcher putting together a brief for a major company TV advert, looking for plastic, climate change footage. Fingers crossed.
Thanks once again.

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Best wishes”
Ash

Global Warming Images photo agency owner photographer Ashley Cooper has updated PAN this week on his latest Antarctic expedition – in a week the Antarctica recorded its highest ever temperature, 18.3 degrees celsius, T shirt weather in Antarctica and a deeply worrying sign on a rapidly changing climate.

• Ashley Cooper has spent the last 16 years documenting the impacts of climate change and the rise of renewable energy on every continent on the planet, the only living photographer to have done so.

Ashley has just returned from seven weeks working in the Antarctic, his third trip down to the world’s coldest and driest continent. He has returned with some spectacular imagery of the regions iconic wildlife, the scenery, Antarctic tourism, and old Antarctic science bases. As expected most of Ashley’s time was spent documenting the impacts of climate change, as the Antarctic peninsular is one of the most rapidly warming areas of the planet. There were two key sites that Cooper wanted to document. The first, A86, the world’s largest iceberg, and the largest moving object on the planet. The berg broke off the Larson C ice shelf in the Weddell Sea, three years ago, and is now drifting northwards. It is 160 Km long and weighs 1 trillion tonnes, a very obvious sign of the climate emergency playing out in Antarctica. Much further South, on the western side of the peninsular was the second site, in Lallemand Fjord. As Cooper says “We had to push to below the polar circle to reach the fjord. It was home to the Muller ice shelf, which disintegrated and broke up entirely several years ago, due to climate change. As the area had recently been covered by an ice shelf, the boat was operating in completely uncharted waters, which was both exciting and a little nerve racking”.