Permafrost

Effects of Global Warming on Arctic Regions According to the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we must cut the worldwide use of fossil fuels by at least 90% if mankind is to have any chance of stopping global warming. The gases that are released from fossil fuels get trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere like a heated dome known as the greenhouse effect. The condensed heat melts or dissolves all the glacier and ice in the Arctic regions. The sudden change of climate can have…

low due to the cold climate and has little shrubs or plants. The long and harsh winters cause the soil to be permanently frozen. Undergrowth is nonexistent and the trees and shrubs collect their nutrients from the shallow layer of soil above the permafrost. The vegetation found in the boreal forests have naturally adapted to climate and limited nutrients. These soils have less clay content and are generally high in soil acidity (H⁺ and Al³⁺). Most of the soils are strongly leached and provide…

The scientific basis for global climate change Climate change has been a perplexing issue for several years now, and many have had projections to end climate change. Several people believe it is a hoax while others believe it’s an extensive issue due to mankind. But the first issue here is to acknowledge that climate change exits. How are we going to project climate change if mankind doesn’t believe it exits initially? But, the climate and weather of the earth is in fact changing and that is…

Abstract Located in southern Siberia, just 20 miles north of Mongolia you can find one of Russia’s most mysterious archaeological sites. Por-Bajin, also known as “clay house” in the Tuvan language, is the name of the site, and it is located on a small island in lake Tere-Khol. Although there has been archeological work done at the site, the purpose of Por-Bajin remains unknown. We believe that uncovering the true purpose of this site will give the world a greater understanding of history in…

Part 1: Doomsday Global warming is real, and, on this track, is bound to kill us. With average temperatures rising over the past years, many plants and animals will die, killing off any sustenance for us. Fortunately, with the correct care, we still may be able to, deter the burning, flooding, and killing of the earth. You may be informed, but you are definitely not alarmed enough. Often believed to be a hoax, global warming has done nothing but rise over the past few decades. Because of global…

Would you consider how you live and what you do is always good for the Earth and its environment? Some may think so, but with all of our industrial centers and vehicles producing carbon emissions, it is causing many global disasters around the Earth. There has been a rise in storms and many other disasters due to this. Many want to change and help out the cause of global warming and climate change but don 't actually put the effort into it. Even though some scientists believe the evidence…

In the history of this earth, there have been five mass extinction. Today earth is facing its sixth. This is mainly humanity’s fault because we are always taking from the environment and never giving back to it, even though this world is not just ours. We share this world with other organisms, but we are stealing it from them in the urban sprawl. The urban sprawl is the uncontrolled growth of urban areas. The Urban sprawl began all the way back in the 1830’s when urban areas began growing more…

at any other time in the last 2 million years. Each sink of the carbon cycle will change as this carbon makes its way through the cycle. The global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions also accelerates the rate at which carbon is released. Permafrost contains rich deposits of carbon and large amounts are released as a result of their thawing due to global warming. In addition, due to global climate changes, changes in the distribution of plant and animal species and vegetation types due to…

Application of clone Dolly the sheep, born in 1996, was the first mammal have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. However, she died of a progressive lung disease more common in older sheep at a young age. She lived six and a half years while most sheep can live to 11 or 12 years of age. Through the post mortem, it is discovered that Dolly had telomeres that are shorter than others of the same age in the same species. Telomeres are pieces of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that shorten…

Polar bears have been alive for one million years. For the past thirteen years, global warming has been affecting climate change, and has hurt the polar bears’ habitat. Climate change has been fastly melting the Arctic. Greenhouse gases act like a sheet or blanket that keeps the planet warm. This protective layer keeps our atmosphere habitable. But over the past two-hundred years, have greatly increased the levels of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like oil and coal.…