Arctic exploration

Drake’s discovery, the search for oil followed. Through this quest, many oil reserves were located all over North America, with the richest reserves found in Texas. Today, oil companies have discovered rich reserves all around the globe, including the Arctic. The

to be a man “in love” (Sloss 7) with the wilderness like a “schoolboy” (Sloss 7). He cannot be home from expeditions long without getting restless.  As days pass, the father spends his time planning his next adventure, a hot air balloon ride to the Arctic, something that he claims will “write his name beside Darwin’s in the history books” (Sloss 13). The father does not tell Mary of his plans and she does not tell him of the loneliness that has struck her “sudden as a storm” (Sloss 13) from his lack

com/2015/07/05/study-polar-bears-could-feel-global-warmings-sting-by-2025/ despite being the first species to be listed under threat under the Endangered Species Act for global warming, the plight of the Arctic polar bears is ongoing. Researchers fear that we'll see how bad we've hurt the Arctic polar bear as early as a decade, or 2025. The driving force behind

ice-free period. To provide polar bears the habit space they deem to be required, the group is advocating for the creation of Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area within Canada’s High Arctic. To further the protection they see necessary the World Wildlife Foundation has been working and advocating to the Arctic Council about being proactive and being able to response in the case of an oil spill. Though polar bears hold cultural and social significance to the people of the artic, the World Wildlife

chain. Without it, top predators such as the brown bear would lack an important food source. The snowshoe hare is an herbivore. Like all herbivores, it eats only plants. Some plants that the snowshoe hare eats are the reindeer lichen, the arctic willow, and the arctic sedge. In the ANWR, it is important that the snowshoe hare has useful adaptations since it lives in the tundra, one of the world’s toughest biomes to survive in. Its signature adaptation is its ability to change color. During the winter

“....there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance,” - Lawrence Millman. Polar bears are examples of Arctic animals and are very fascinating. Unfortunately, their population is lessening. Some of these threats will critically decrease the population, making it harder for polar bears to survive. Scientists predict that two-thirds of polar bears could be

to drop. The major reasoning for cub deaths is lack of food (Ramsey and Stirling, 1990). The new search for oil in the arctic is the second largest threat to the polar bears (Mattson, 1990). If oil spills occur in the arctic, it gets on the bears fur causing them to exhort more energy to keep warm because the oil insulates their fur. Bears become poisoned by oil exploration. If there are spills the polar bears will ingest the oil causing them to get sick and die (Mattson, 1990). Oil spills also

The Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge is one of America's last great wilderness areas. It is home to many animals such as polar bears, wolves, and grizzly bears, caribou herds, snow geese, musk oxen, and dozens of other species. If your oil companies keep drilling in the Arctic, most of these beautiful creatures will die, and some will become extinct. The Coastal Plain is home to these animals. Annually, a herd of 129,000 caribou gather on the Coastal Plain to bear and nurse their young. Polar

cubs. This area is known as the arctic, and it is home to many animals, such as the polar bear, but they are in danger of losing their home due to the melting ice caps. At the beginning of the article “The geopolitics of Arctic melt”, Charles K. Ebinger, the director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings Institution, as well as Evie Zambetakis, a Senior Research Assistant at Brookings Institute in 2009, asserts their credence of how the thawing Arctic, due to Global warming, increased

development of a strategy for accomplishing USNORTHCOM’s increased responsibilities in the Arctic region. He placed Major General Howard N. Thompson, USNORTHCOM