Monday, November 16, 2009

What is happening at the Artic?

The Artic, also known as the frozen Artic Ocean ,is now facing a whole lot of problems due to one problem: Global Warming. It has affected the whole world and also the Artic's neighbour, Greenland. It has an icecap which is 2km thick and once it melts completely, sea levels will rise 6m more! The animals in the Artic are also facing problems. For example, polar bears. They cannot hunt seals anymore due to melting ice sheets and it can only hunt caribou, which are reindeer. Caribou does not provide enough fat and they are too fast for the polar bears, so normally they are not successful, which leads to one thing - Death. They are dying out and facing extinction, and melting of permafrost also caused problems. It will release a gas called Methane which absorbs heat 10 times more than carbon dioxide, and having livestock with cows and sheep releases more Methane. If we do not change now, we will be grilled in no time, and the Artic will melt, too. We will also lose our habitat due to rising sea levels, and so we must stop global warming, once and for all!

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