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Nature 448, 9 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448009a; Published online 4 July 2007

The great gig in the South

Katharine Sanderson

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Live Earth unleashes its Antarctic monkeys.

When Al Gore and his colleagues dreamed up the idea of a climate-change consciousness-raising Live Earth event featuring concerts on every continent, they came up against a problem. The event's 7 July date corresponds with midwinter in the Antarctic, when no one gets on or off the seventh continent.