Arctic

The Warm Blue Dot: Evidence for Anthropological Global Warming Introduction Throughout the long history of the Earth, the global climate has fluctuated drastically, ranging from tropical to glacial. In the mid-18th century, the Industrial Revolution began, and humanity began a bilateral campaign: one waged with the goal of achieving a prosperous, industrialized future, and another, inadvertently waged against the environment. The purpose of this literature review is to examine the influence of…

The news he'd just received had shaken both him and his trainer down to the core. Steve was gone. The soldier had been swallowed up by the cold waters of the Arctic. Gone like Bucky and Scrapper and so many others were gone and they were never going to come back. The only good news about his death was that he hadn't taken Sunny and Liberty with him. It was a selfish thought, but Felix wasn't sure what he'd have…

used for cultivation. Fishing is an essential part of iceland and has been a lifeline for the nation for both part of the diet and primary export product. The primary species of fish used for production are Arctic Charr, Atlantic salmon, and atlantic cod. Iceland is the largest producer of arctic charr in the world. The crops iceland usually grows are rutabaga, leeks, cauliflower, kale, potatoes, carrots, and rhubarb. During the times between 1960 and 1970 iceland had a problem with overfishing…

The Inuit are part of a wide group modernly called Eskimos. Scattered throughout the Arctic region, they occupy parts Canada, Greenland, and the Alaskan coast. They originated in in Western Alaska starting around 1000 A.D., and slowly expanded outwards. The Inuit have been around for a large span of time, and still exist today. With regards to the characteristics their society, the capacity for the presence of peace and violence is evaluated through ethnographic, archaeological, and…

temperatures through the thermometer records kept over the past century and half. It is recorded that around the world, the Earth’s average temperature has raised more than 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last century, and about twice that in parts of the Arctic. Likewise, there is evidence…

“The sum total of all thoughts and intuitions, myths and beliefs, ideas and inspirations brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness” is best defined as ethnosphere by Wade Davis, in his introduction to Wayfinders (2). He establishes the direction of this travel log with the introduction of culture: a dynamic and complex system that characterizes societies and from it flows people’s identity. As Davis immerses the reader into a series of indigenous people groups…

Throughout literature, seasons, often presenting abstract thematic information and conveying extended metaphors through repetitive attention to seasons, parallel an underlying notion of progress or cycles within the narrative. Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, likewise employs seasonal and nature-related rhetorical devices, extending such symbols and settings to directly reflect inner developments within prominent characters; through the naturally abstract and indirect, she develops a standing on…

Introduction: Atmospheric circulation patterns exert a tremendous influence on regional weather and climate especially in the mid-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere1. However, there is a significant debate over how patterns will respond to climate change. In this experiment, I will analyze climate models using a specific metric called sinuosity to determine how climate change will affect circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes. This information is impactful and important as changes in…

The history of climate change has been a study of science since 1960. We can accurately determine the global climate change with our advancing technological equipment, and our methods of gathering data from ancient ice in the Arctic. We have scientist that take measurements of the amount of carbon dioxide that was in our atmosphere in many points of history. A ice sample that they believed to be around the years 1850-1870 was measured, they found the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the…

Imagine the world without foul smells of garbage lying on the floor and foggy skies from public transportation. Humans are known to have the most advanced brains but do they really show that when they are polluting the environment and causing drastic changes to the ecosystem. “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson wrote in the Wall Street Journal. ‘Pollutants like mercury, smog and soot are neurotoxins and killers that cause developmental problems and asthma in kids and…