Arctic

Fun Fact The Arctic Fox can be 2.3 to 3.5 feet long. In the winter the Arctic Fox has a white coat in the summer they have a brown coat. Their white coat helps with the cold and with camouflage. They also have a bushy tail and 4 longer teeth and 8 shorter teeth. The male Arctic foxes are protective around the females or around their family. Predators of baby Arctic foxes focus mainly on the them because they're easier to catch. Arctic wolves hide in the snow and wait for the foxes to walk by…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) sits on what we might call a pot of black gold; a reported 7 billion barrels of oil can be found here (Primack), and we can find a lot of debates online regarding the ANWR. On one side the oil industry’s potential role in accessing the land, pulling this resource out for the benefit of the energy independence and economic growth of North America. On the other side of the debate is the protection of this majestic beauty of the vast grasslands and herds…

The melting ice in the Arctic has allowed for the potential navigation during the summer months, of two shipping routes formerly impassable; the Northwest Passage, which runs through northern Canada and the Northern Sea route, north of the Russian mainland. (Anderson, A., 2009). The potential use of these routes would mean that goods would no longer have to travel through the Suez or Panama canals, shortening the distance by thousands of miles. (Anderson 2009). In fact, it is estimated that…

The Beaufort Gyre, a major anticyclonic circulation feature in the Arctic Ocean, hosts a substantial fraction of the overall Arctic freshening citep{haine2015arctic}. The large-scale gyre circulation has been directly linked to its freshwater content (FWC) via the process of Ekman pumping that converges relatively fresh surface waters and deepens the halocline citep[e.g.][]{proshutinsky2002role}. The Ekman pumping arises due to transient anticyclonic winds that cause significant gyre…

Researchers have found that warming temperatures are allowing the red foxes to migrate and stay further north, where they invade the breeding grounds of the Arctic fox. The red fox is bigger and more aggressive. Scientists are now becoming increasingly concerned that with a more comfortable climate, the emboldened red foxes will set about ousting the Arctic ones. This increases the survival of the red fox and will cause the population to…

population is a result of oil drilling in the arctic. The negative effects of oil drilling have spread to habitat loss, consumption of health declining chemicals, and impacts on polar bear family life/ birth rates. While individuals might not see this as an issue, due to the importance of oil in society, not only are individuals harming this species but humanity is also harming the environment. To begin, Human man is depleting the ice caps in the arctic. With humans…

The difference between the polar bear and Komodo dragon are pronounced, they have different habitats, hunting strategies and temperaments. Although Polar bears and Komodo dragons are similar in the animal kingdom their habitats are different altogether. For example, the polar bear spends most of their life in, around, or on the ocean. They use the floating sea ice as their home, moving from one location to another. This where the polar bears can find the greatest number of prey. As the ice…

growing concern on the conditions of the Arctic when factoring Global Warming. Most scientists believe the last 50 years of constant temperature changes in the world is due to human activity and the burning of fossil fuels. Many also take in the natural factors, for example, variations in the solar radiation, where major volcanic interactions and eruptions between the ocean and the atmosphere. Many people on earth do not understand the importance of the Arctic and what major roles it plays in…

The Arctic and Subarctic regions of the western hemisphere have been populated with Native North American inhabitants since before European contact in the 1500s. The Arctic and Subarctic regions comprise a vast amount of land, and varying topography and environmental conditions that influence the socio-cultural organization and daily lives of the region’s inhabitants. The Native American groups that occupy these regions live in close conjunction with their environment. Additionally, these…

this topic. My question is: What is causing temperatures (specifically in the arctic) to rise? The next step in the scientific method would be, to construct background research. This would consist of researching the triggers and causes of the rising temperature, and show why exactly this is occurring. My hypothesis is: that increased energy consumption and human population have caused the rising temperatures in the Arctic. To prove this hypothesis and further the experiment, a scientist would…