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The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it is “a natural step” because the Arctic government “takes the climate crisis seriously.”. Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' shows earlier-than-expected meltRead full articl...
Investigations have revealed that the mast remained intact; it didn’t snap. Is it possible that wind alone caused the sinking? Gusts in the area were estimated to be around 50 knots, possibly reaching 70 knots at the incident site.
由划线词所在句的前一句“In fact, until recent years, Antarctica’s sea ice area mainly set records for growing. (事实上,直到最近几年,南极洲的海冰面积一直在不断增长。)”和第四段中“This year, Antarctica’s sea ice was at a new record low — not just by a little bit, but by a lot...
During the summer months, it can warm up to +21°C (70 °F), but only in the coastal regions. In the center of Greenland, the temperature hardly ever exceeds 0°C (32 °F). Geography With a total area of 2,166,086 km2 (836,000 square miles), Greenland is the biggest ...
“Don’t you know there are termites starving in Antarctica” says Roberto’s mother, who’s upset that the young termite is playing with his food – wood. (He builds a tower out of the pancake-shaped slices of wood that he’s served for breakfast, and he dreams of becoming an archite...
I stayed in the Old Town area of Gamla Stan and was super excited about my accommodations. I had booked a room on a yacht. It sounds super fancy, but honestly, it was one of the cheaper places to stay in Stockholm. This yacht was once owned by Barbara Hutton, an heiress married to...
When disaster strikes in Antarctica’s frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, Randall’s expedition has no...
Australia - Land, Climate, People: Australia is both the flattest continent and, except for Antarctica, the driest. Seen from the air, its vast plains, sometimes the colour of dried blood, more often tawny like a lion’s skin, may seem to be one huge des
Antarctica (南极洲) is a great, icy land mass, surrounded by the huge Southern Ocean. The ice in Antarctica doesn’t just cover the land. There’s also a huge area of sea ice which floats (漂浮) on the ocean’s surface. However, scientists have reported that Antarctica’s sea ice is...