Food shipments introduce alien species to Antarctica - Telegraph
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A new study has revealed that fresh fruit and vegetables being sent to feed the 4,000 or so scientists stationed in #Antarctica are laden with foreign species of insects, slugs, worms, plant seeds and fungi that pose a risk to the #ecosystems on the world’s coldest continent.