Antarctica

What is Tundra? The tundra can be found at the top of the earth close to the North Pole. It’s a huge biome that looks so nice and covers the fifth of the earth’s surface. Tundra comes from the word Tunturia. Tundra is the coldest biome in the earth, and it’s hard to live in it from how cold it is. Tundra doesn’t have trees (treeless) in the Arctic and top of the mountains where the climate is cold or windy. Extremely low temperature and a little precipitation Tundra’s lands are…

Geoscientist have recently brought an end to a once mind boggling mystery of how large lakes that sit above the Greenland ice sheet drain billions of gallons of water in hours! The Greenland ice sheet extends about 656,000 miles covering most of the island. As ice melts it creates huge lake but these massive lakes are soon empty of water; where does it go? “In 2006, Greenland's North Lake, a 2.2 square-mile (5.6 square kilometers) supraglacial meltwater lake, drained almost 12 billion gallons…

NASA study shows Antarctica gaining ice in some regions Published research concludes that Antarctica ice melt is not contributing to rise in sea level A recent NASA study shows that global warming did not cause Antarctica ice melt loss over a nine year period between 1992 and 2001, during which the continent actually gained more than 110 billion tons of ice every year. The study, which appeared in the Journal of Glaciology, also reported that the amount slowed to 80 billion tons of ice a year…

In the Documentary “Secrets Beneath the Ice In Antarctica”, The scientists studied the climate change by examine the Antarctic Ice Sheet. As the deeper they reached the ice, the further back in time they can study because these ices contained tiny bubbles of ancient atmosphere that trapped each year as the snow was compressed into ice night. In the documentary, they used a machine to drill through ice to gather sample from the nearly two miles thick West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Then, they found…

That was my muse for this poem, not close the level of the speaker but the common depression that everyone experiences. The name of the poem is “Antarctica” because that is what I can related depression too, I remember feeling very cold when I had depression as well as lonely. It's a metaphor for the depression because the thick ice sheet in Antarctica is the depression that does not allow the land or the person to flourish. I decide to make this poem in sonnet form, more specifically English…

Australia was originally in the Antarctic circle as part of Gondwana, a supercontinent that consisted of Australia, Antarctica, Africa, and South America. It was part of the land and then broke off and slowly moved up to where it is now. New Zealand and the other surrounding islands also came from this same land, but, they broke off to form islands of their own. Because of the greenhouse conditions on the planet at the time of Gondwana, the area, despite being in the Antarctic circle, had no…

Human effects on Antarctica: Change to save or Die trying Imagine sailing by the tip of lady liberty’s torch. Well, this is scheduled to happen within the next 100 years. Antarctica, one of the world’s greatest continents is facing destruction from: global warming, rising waters, pollution, and invasive species. Over the past 50 years, scientists have observed the damage done to the continent and have deemed it irreversible. Overheating has caused Antarctica’s surface area to decline and its…

In 2002 there was a great collapse of a mighty ice shelf in Antarctica that resulted in a warm air temperature. This allowed the scientists to explore two major reasons as to why there was instability in the ice shelves. During, the ice shelf of Larsen B extended over 3,250 square kilometers, a range that is particularly larger than Luxemburg and it was gone by the end of the accompanying month. The whole 220-meter thick ice rack crumbled into the ocean within the space of an Antarctic summer.…

With the ruler's presentation crab and its predators, the mainland rack off Antarctica will look a ton more like the mainland racks at lower scopes (more distant north), as per the study analysts. [Antarctica and 7 Other Imperiled Places in the World] This won't not appear like such a frightful prospect (does it truly make a difference if two ocean depths have a striking resemblance?), however…

thinking “wow, am I really here? paddling in Antarctica?” For most of my life Antarctica was just that white part on the bottom of a map. It wasn’t until I met someone in New Zealand who had worked at a base there as a glacier guide for scientists that it ever crossed my mind as a possible place to work. I quickly realized that a position on a base was beyond my reach as I was not a scientist and had no experience with glaciers. The thought of working in Antarctica slipped away as I accepted I…