Permafrost

After doing some research, I looked at a number of issues effecting the environment which are caused by humanity in its relations with the earth and life on it. There were discussions conducted and utilized readings which were assigned to different topics involving the environment. The main focus evolved around climate change; the causes and possible outcomes. However there are more problems on determining the ethics of our solutions than actual solutions. What are we doing to protect the…

defined as “Periglacial literally means ‘edge’ of glacial. Periglacial environments are found on the fringes of polar or glacial environments, e.g. in parts of Siberia, Canada and Greenland. Periglacial areas experience permanently frozen ground (permafrost). During their brief warmer summers, the ground surface layer thaws – enabling hardy plants to grow. Periglacial environments…

Iditarod The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annually held, long distance sled dog race that begins on the first Saturday in March. The distance of this race is about 1150 miles. Each sled is pulled by 16 dogs. The length of the race can last 9-15 days, sometimes even longer. The race generally causes the teams (each dog sled) to race through blizzards that are causing whiteout conditions, and the wind-chill can to drop to as cold as −100 °F. The winner of this race is frequently…

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…

Running Head: CLIMATE CHANGE Global warming is catastrophic once no action is taken to counteract that as in the case of Alaska. Alaska State is the largest in the United States of America having 20% of the United States. This state also has a wide range of ecological and climatic conditions which include glaciers, tundra, rainforests, meadows, and boreal forest. The warming in Alaska has increased over the last 60 years more than twice of the warming in the United States as warming in…

If something happens to the frozen subsoil (also called permafrost) or if a species becomes extinct, the whole ecosystem may collapse. If the whole ecosystem collapses, a lot of species will become extinct because the tundra has a lot of species that only can live and survive there. These species include the arctic…

Since Mars is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be directly observed in detail from the Earth with help from a telescope, it has been studied by Earth-based instruments since as early as the seventeenth century. However it is just since the exploration of Mars started in the mid-1960s that close-range observation has been conceivable. Flyby and orbital shuttles have provided information from above, while direct estimations of atmospheric conditions have been given by various…

is about the melting of the Arctic Circle and Greenland. These regions are claimed to experience faster impacts of global warming than other regions. The thickness of this ice has decreased by 40% in the last 50 years. Rise in temperatures thaws permafrost and has endangered the infrastructure of the land and releases even more carbon into the atmosphere. Greenland based Cairn Energy is considered to be responsible for the pollution in the Greenland region and surrounding area. Shell,…

The rising of temperature in the world has been thought of as a major problem for officials, but soon, it will affect you and me too. Climate change to you right now may not seem like a big deal to your life at the moment, but some of the things you may read here, could change the way you think. Even though people think the world is not changing climate, there are true facts that are leading to it, it is necessary that the community should consolidate to prevent the climate from increasing while…

The arctic ecosystem has its own food web which is made for its own animal and species and other environmental characteristics. Carbon cycles through the web from atmosphere and to the seawater. The arctic ecosystem helps reduce global warming and helps keep the temperature normal. Earths poles are cold because they get very less sunlight. The arctic ocean insulates the air. Arctic ecosystems have over thousands of algae, microbes, fish, birds and marine mammals. The Arctic ocean is one of the…