The archipelago is vulnerable to climate change and is facing rising sea levels, the deterioration of the marine ecosystem -- particularly its coral reefs -- as well as landslides, flooding and drought.
The Attenborough vessel -- which cost £200 million ($268 million) to build and was launched in 2020 -- will arrive at Rothera Research Station, to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula, by late November.
More than 500,000 Palestinians had returned to Gaza City by Saturday evening, according to Gaza's civil defence agency, a rescue service operating under Hamas authority.