Tiara Walters

Antarctic investigative reporter 🌍🏔️ • Spectacularly underperforming X influencer • For detailed updates:

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https://t.co/IkcZtbp7iT ‘Prédateurs. Sciento-sceptiques. Nothing is assured’: Paris breaks the silence on Antarctica’s mineral race

@PolarObs

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Africa's only national polar research vessel holds minister-led demo cruise from Durban to Cape Town. May this outward-facing engagement beyond the immediate polar cluster continue.

[Environmentza @environmentza]

One of the key demonstrations during the SA Agulhas II Demonstration Cruise showcased the use of plankton nets to collect microscopic marine organisms. Plankton research is vital to understanding ocean health, food webs, and climate change.
#SAAgulhasII #Plankton #OceanScience

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Ministerial demonstration cruise aboard South Africa's polar research vessel blows away officials who hold the purse strings. [Wipes brow.]

[Environmentza @environmentza]

Members of both the Select and Portfolio Committees witnessed firsthand the vital role of ocean science in policy and development. Honourable Modise, who sailed aboard the #SAAgulhasII from Durban to Cape Town, shared his reflections on the Open Day and Demonstration Cruise.

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Ruffled feathers: The Full Monty director casts accidental bird in botched pic of Argentine coup

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❄️ 🏹A chilling warning shot across the world’s coldest bow. My new @dailymaverick scoop reveals how the once-untouchable Antarctic Treaty is under threat: from strategic moves by Russia & China to a realistic possible US exit. https://t.co/MCx5rwO6hU

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@BuchananLiz @BuchananLiz You can tell Canberra @dailymaverick
broke the story nearly 2 weeks ago: https://t.co/VdoWP022ST

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@buchananliz, in sharing this news, you may be interested in the stories @dailymaverick first smoked out nearly 2 weeks ago: 1) Trump's $60m Ant budget cut & 2) The new Ru station 👇https://t.co/VdoWP022ST

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Marion Island ‘power crisis’ — single generator clings to life as relief ship dawdles

https://t.co/cqvwGmy9l7

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The American-South African writer Jeffrey Barbee has gathered thoughts on legal personhood and the parlous state of the #AntarcticTreatySystem. Also: "ATS headquarters did not respond to numerous requests for comment on this article."

@looksouth

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🔎 In the public interest, Daily Maverick has taken the decision to publish the news before the national government announcement. ⏳ After months of suspected cases, deadly avian flu is confirmed at South Africa's globally important Marion Island. https://t.co/QsuDwAVDsu

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My latest | When Putin’s people were in 🇦🇺, helping Beijing shred a krill agreement, his polar man was in Cape Town, wooing local researchers. The move appears to be part of Russia’s strategy to expand its South Pole influence. Does swing state SA care? https://t.co/rEZYyM3I8W

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🗣️ 🌍 ❄️ | @DailyMaverick's new #Antarctic columnist, 🇿🇦 lawyer Lesai Seema, hails from Cape Town firm Cullinan & Associates. C&A = pioneer of #earthjurisprudence specialising in precedents for nature. He has precedent-setting thoughts on Antarctica too.
https://t.co/qnrJiyDskG

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Russia's Akademik Fedorov = back in Cape Town. Nxt stop? Antarctica for standard sci research & logistics. It's the ‘literal and figurative flagbearer for Russia’s Antarctic programme’ + SA 'risks deteriorating its image on the global stage’, say critics.
https://t.co/VJrmVgoUVk

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https://t.co/sW9TJ8fsj9 My latest | ‘Krill, baby, krill’ – what president-elect Donald Trump means for imperilled Antarctica

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Suspected cases of deadly avian flu hit Marion Island | The story I never wanted to write about the press release I'd hoped would never arrive in my inbox.

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Daily Maverick braved bureaucratic frostbite to read the Antarctic Treaty’s 112,000-word annual meeting report, uncovering a code that only diplomats may be able to crack. https://t.co/72fvJRf9LJ

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Daily Maverick revelations on Russia’s Antarctic oil-and-gas hunt spark global attention https://t.co/vW1QpHkRaq

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🔦 My latest | #OhDearAdare: Melting ice, hidden dangers? The suspected explosives buried next to the world’s biggest Adélie penguin rookery 🐧 ❄ Thanks @AntarcticaNZ & @InspireExplore for your prompt & detailed replies to @DailyMaverick's queries. https://t.co/P4JpAG66sr

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World map according to fish 🐟🗺️👇

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According to the Express, #Antarctica has a new distinction: the world's most "uninhibited place". Does that mean penguins don't give a hoot what humans think? Or are some stations left to the elements with abandon, regardless of what Antarctica thinks? https://t.co/UD2AbuF9zl