The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost arm of the planet’s coldest, most remote continent. While the recent increase in heat waves indicates that the area is particularly sensitive to anthropogenic climate change, Antarctica as a landscape still seems to defy an anthropocentric gaze. During Unearthing the Present, scientists, researchers, artists, and activists studied an Antarctic ice core sample, which contains detailed data on Antarctica’s environmental history, from the amount of local snowfall to rising CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere. The Antarctic Peninsula is one of twelve sites across the globe explored by geologists looking for traces of human impact on the planet. Read our online guide The Geological Anthropocene for more information and to explore the other sites.