'No second planet': Colombian mission to Antarctica analyzes climate change footprints

Colombia's 10th Antarctic Expedition made its way to the far reaches of the continent, exploring remote and almost untouched places inhabited by penguins, whales and the occasional seal. AFP team accompanied the scientific expedition for 38 days, aboard the ARC Simon Bolivar, a brand-new Colombian naval vessel which left Punta Arenas, in southern Chile, for the white continent. "We have to ask ourselves if the rhythms of life and the way we lead our daily lives are really worth it," says Miguel Angel de Pablo, a professor at the University of Alcala, who has been studying the increasing loss of glacier mass due to global warming and rising atmospheric temperatures. "We're going to lose the planet, there is no second planet," he adds.