Do you know what animal can weigh over 1‚000 pounds‚ is very ferocious and lives in freezing temperatures. The answer to that is a polar bear and I am hear to tell you all about it. Polar bears are amazing creatures. Polar bears are very rare in modern civilization and can be found on few places around the earth. These animals are also very deadly and are feared by many animals having very few predators. There sense of smell is amazing being able to detect seals under 3 feet of ice and snow. As I
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The Ursus maritimus is an animal that lives in cold areas. “Polar bears” are found in icy coasts. Sixty percent of polar bears live in the northern part of Canada‚ while the other 40% live in Russia‚ Alaska‚ Greenland or Svalbard. At the moment‚ polar bears are the biggest carnivorious mammals alive. The most distinctive feature of Ursus maritimus is their clear not white fur and black skin. Polar bears are currently vulnerable‚ that means they are most likely to become endangered unless something
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Many argue that we should reduce foreign oil dependency by reducing our consumption and by drilling for oil right here in the U.S. For approximately forty years‚ a debate has been brewing about oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is 19‚000‚000 acres of land in northern Alaska‚ a U. S. state."It is the largest protected wilderness in the United States and was created by Congress under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
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discovered houses the body of an adolescent. The elaborate grave raises questions about the spirituality of these people. The people of the Atlantic later developed into the cultures of the Innu‚ Beothuk‚ Mi’kmaq and Abenaki. The Peoples of the Arctic Time Span: 2000-0 BCE There are two main groups of people that are believed to have migrated across the Bering Strait 1. Paleo-Eskimo 2. Dorset People I: Paleo-Eskimos: Lived in a broad area stretching from Alaska to Greenland‚ and north to Ellesmere
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Militarization of the Arctic The fight for the Arctic area among some countries has become more and more serious‚ but this area is not any country’s own property. And the anti-militarization of Arctic has something to do with the interest of every country in the world. On one hand‚ the Arctic plays an indispensable role in regulating global climate. On the other hand‚ the anti-militarization has an important impact on the peace and stability of the world. The arctic‚ like the Antarctic
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problem with the climate in the Arctic zone and how it has been causing the population of the Polar Bears to drop. There are organizations around the world helping the Polar Bears survive. Polar Bears have been endangered for ten years now and without organizations such as the WWF (World Wildlife Fund)‚ the Polar Bear’s survival rate will drop drastically. The survival of the Polar Bears rely on the WWF organization’s Margaret Williams‚ the managing director for the Arctic program for the WWF‚ is an expert
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framework consists of 15 ecozones. Within these are 194 ecoregions. Arctic Cordillera This ecozone incorporates vast polar ice fields and has some of the most spectacular alpine glacier scenery in the world. Massive ice caps and glaciers mask many of the rugged mountains. Some of Canada’s highest but least-known peaks are found here‚ towering over U-shaped valleys and deep fiords that extend many kilometres inland. This Arctic Cordillera occupies the northeastern fringe of the Northwest Territories
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are the Arctic people and they came from the north . Nowadays‚ the Inuits still live in the Arctic regions. The Inuits have interesting homes‚ clothing‚ foods‚ traditions and culture. The Inuit people live in the cold places‚ there are more than 100‚000 of them are living on the earth. Almost of them live in the southern part of the Arctic Circle. They used simple material to make their homes like woods‚ because it was hard to find other material in the frozen tundra of the Arctic. In the
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in the entire Arctic eco system. Scientists suggest that warmer temperatures mean less lack of ice that polar bears depend on for hunting. As their normal habitat gets hotter it goes down in size‚ this consequence leads to fewer polar bears. For the polar bear‚ which is a non replaceable symbol of the Arctic‚ climate change could cause extinction of polar bears. Temperatures in the Arctic are increasing at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world. Since 1973 the Arctic sea area ice has
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High inside the Arctic Circle‚ in one of the most unforgiving environment on the planet‚ two teams of paleontologists investigated a 70 million year old mystery. The paleontologist have unearthed dozens of dinosaurs‚ their bones complied together‚ fossilized‚ and preserved in permafrost for eons. The startling discovery of ancient reptiles‚ also known as the “thunder lizards‚” had taken scientists by surprise because it lived and thrived in the arctic. This discovery raises questions as to how
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