Permafrost

The Greenhouse Effect This paper will revolve around the the Greenhouse effect and its effect on all things around it. Basically our environment has all these gases in it that are bad and good. The basic idea is that there are gases in our atmosphere that are unable to leave and it just continue to build indefinitely. The earth 's temperature then starts rising and rising and until it is said that eventually it will cause everything to waste away.. This gradual rise of the Earth 's temperature,…

The Climate Cost of India’s Population Boom With the second largest population in the world, the country of India, located in South Asia continues to grow rapidly. While being a relatively new democracy, gaining independence shortly after World War two, India has visions of International success. While being somewhat limited in the natural resources the country possesses, the population boom in India is putting stress on its own country and climate. With the climate issues faced by Indian…

disappeared, epidemiologists still did not understand exactly why it was so devastating. After working with tissue samples from the autopsies of flu victims and the infected lung tissue of an Alaskan woman whose body had been preserved in Arctic permafrost, researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were able to recreate an extinct virus. Then, in October of 2005, they announced that they had isolated, decoded and replicated the…

998973945 TUT0104 10/23/2014 Promoting Higher Education of The Canadian Arctic Environment For Inuit & First Nations Through reading Shelagh Grant’s book, “Polar Imperative,” the understanding I have come to is that the Arctic is a much more politically complex and socially diverse ecosystem than I once previously assumed. Previously viewing the Arctic as a barren frozen tundra with scarce species, including polar bears, seals, and fish. Through reading Polar Imperative my view has…

superficially be considered “civilized” due to her clothing, gold, imperialist language, Fortress, etc. The symbolism of the color white for this story functions as evil and death as the white snow covers the once rich land of Narnia with the kind of permafrost that paralyzes life itself. Likewise, the White Witch is aptly named by the Native Narnians and Aslan, but does not refer herself as the ‘White Witch’, rather she is “her Imperial Majesty…

Does the type of liquid affect how fast an ice cube melts? Does the type of liquid affect how fast an ice cube melts? In an experiment (not ours) involving three liquids, pop melted the ice within it the fastest out of the three. Molecules cause ice to melt in a pretty simple way. When salt is thrown on snow or ice, it prevents the ice or snow from freezing over once again. There are quite a few man-made ices, one being ice cubes. Glaciers have been around almost since the ice age, and they…

I’m a military child, and as such, it’s always an awkward thing when someone asks me: “Where are you from?” I don’t really know, I can’t pinpoint an exact place where I can say: “I’m from so-and-so.” I can tell you where my family spent a lot time though, where the memories are the deepest, and the places I felt a strong connection to. Alaska is such a place. There’s nowhere in the world like Alaska, and I can say that with extreme clarity because my father has been everywhere. He’ll say…

Andrew Heywood ENG 1101 Larson August 24, 2015 Climate Change and the Arctic Earth is a self-sustaining system that is built to cleanse and rehabilitate its own environment. Due to our interactions with the environment, producing mass amounts of greenhouse gases and releasing chemical waste, we are slowly tearing the Earth apart faster than it can repair itself. One effect this has created is climate change. Climate change has caused much of Earth’s environment to degrade, the Arctic being the…

The Virus Change Are we to blame for the world of the unseen changing at an alarming rate? Throughout the last few decades, the world of viruses have changed. Some harmful viruses are spreading more faster and easier than they ever had before, and there have been some resurrections of some old viruses. The recent changes in the world of viruses are not a natural occurrence but brought on by humanity. One of the main reason for the changes in the virus worlds as we know it is the latest changes…

Chloe Duke 10/10/15 Ak Studies My memory of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Alaska is very vivid in my mind. I remember hearing about it first happening in the lower 48. To be more specific in Boston and then how it spread the flu to Philadelphia all spreading from shipyard to shipyard, boat to boat, person to person. On September 17, a ship docked at the Puget Sound Naval Station, which is near Seattle, Washington, where longshoremen loaded steamships that happened to be bound for…