They proposed instead that a comprehensive regime to protect the Antarctic environment be negotiated in its place.

The Antarctic environment is extremely fragile, and in recent years extreme measures have been taken to protect it.

Among the potentially adverse affects on the Antarctic environment is the impact of increasing tourism.

It is just as important to find ways to control other human activity that is currently degrading the Antarctic environment, he said.

It is another identifiable impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment.

This is a preliminary assessment to determine the severity of environmental impact of an activity on the Antarctic environment.

"There's no telling now how long it may take before the Antarctic environment gets the legal protection we believe it needs."

The major impacts on the Antarctic environment are caused by people who have never even visited it.

But clearly her mission here involved much more than protecting the unspoiled Antarctic environment from the Americans.

I was gratified that anyone could live so patently at ease in an Antarctic environment.