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plax (ico), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link

feelin this

ice cr?m, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link

In the early 60s researchers in the then Soviet Union noticed that the ice line would retreat several hundred feet further north each year. Around the same time scientists based on Ellesmere Island noticed a gradual but persistent warming trend, the effect of which could have unimaginable consequences on the entire region, and on the planet itself.

ptarmigan (Lamp), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link

im reading a siberian travelog right now and the guy is skirting the arctic circle and its really cold

ice cr?m, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link

http://alaska.fws.gov/fisheries/mmm/walrus/images/walrus_family_affair.gif

Sociable animals, a walrus will swim to aid another memeber of the colony when in danger, instead of fleeing. This has made them particularly vulnerable to hunters and current estimates put the total population in the wild at less than 20,000.

ptarmigan (Lamp), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link

im reading a siberian travelog right now and the guy is skirting the arctic circle and its really cold

read an amazing book earlier this year on the 'race for the north pole' that i cant remember the title of - all those doomed expeditions starving to death in the snow - but the history of (western) arctic exploration is crazy fascinating.

currently reading abt arctic ecology and its super interesting but sort of infuraiting all these rad amazing animals descriptions and then 'and while no longer threatened with extinction [animal x]'s population still remains at historically low levels'. the only exceptions are the ones that we actually did manage to wipe out completely...

ptarmigan (Lamp), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link

okay looking at charts of population declines is depressing the hell out of me

~~~~RADIATING GOOD VIBES THROUGHOUT THE IONOSPHERE~~~~~

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Aurora_Borealis_NO.JPG

ptarmigan (Lamp), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link


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