In celebration of Earth Day Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world and at the same time one of the most important thermo regulators of the planet. Its ice sheet deflects sun’s rays, keeping temperature liveable. The white continent holds in its ice sheet 90% of the world’s fresh water. Protecting Antarctica means protecting the world and human kind from catastrophic events as the rise of sea level, hurricanes, draught and floods, just to name a few. Last but not least Antarctica is one of the world’s most important laboratories, which lock in its four kilometre-thick ice sheet the record of our planet’s climate over the past one million years. Studies of the ice core extracted from the ice sheet is essential to understand climate change and its consequences. I always think of Antarctica as a Planet on our Planet. It looks like everything stopped at the time of creation. Everything is in harmony, pristine and pure, probably because no humans ever colonized this continent. It is one of the few places on earth were animals are not scared of us, were penguins approach you to interact, where seals want to play with you and birds don’t fly away. It is a place of peace and science where you can reflect without any distraction from the outside world. Daisy #earthday #antarctica