Gene KimJessica Orwig
the National Climate Assessment reported in 2018.In addition to human- caused warming of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans,many factors—including the geography of Antarctica,the region's winds,as well as air and ocean temperatures—affect the ice around Antarctica.(2018年,...
It took eight years to build the field camp and to collect the original ice core, because the harsh Antarctica conditions allow only a 60-day window each year in which to work. That task was completed in January 2012. "This year was significant because of the completion of additional field...
Last week in Geography, we learnt that if all the ice in Antarctica melted, a great wave, thirty metres high, would hit our city.上周的地理课上,我们了解到,如果南极洲的冰川融化,将会有30米高的巨浪袭击我们的城市。I started to worry. What would happen then?我开始担忧了。那时会发生什么事情...
AntarcticaArctic iceglaciericebergpolar regionsThe authors introduced polar science in a fourthgrade classroom by means of 3 hands-on activities that addressed (1) the melting of glaciers and ice, (2) the differences between the North and the South Pole, and (3) the geography and landforms of...
Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier (冰川)the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels. The researchers, working on the Thwaites Glacier, recorded water temperatures at the b...
First, China and Europe should deepen cooperation in green development in the face of increasing extreme weather events. Devastating forest fires in Canada, the US, Greece and Spain, the melting of ice in Antarctica, and severe floods and typhoons in many countries are some of the examples of...
Camping in Antarctica is unlike camping anywhere else on Earth. The pristine environment and ever-present wildlife makes for an enchanting night of sounds: rumblings of shifting ice, the crackling of a glacier calving, the coos of a penguin colony, the soft fwisshhhh of a whale blowhole. ...
Whileyouread9-112345678Calvin,astudentatSuccessCollege,wroteastorysetin2040.① Antarctica n. 南极洲Ihavealwaysbeenfrightenedofwater.LastweekinGeography,welearntthatifalltheiceinAntarctica①melted,agreatwave,thirtymetreshigh,wouldhitourcity.Istartedtoworry.Whatwouldhappenthen?Peoplewouldruntohighground...Per...
In Antarctica(南极), when spring comes, ice begins to melt, and the sun stays in the sky all night long. In the brightly world, the large gray head of a Weddell seal (威德尔海豹) appears through a crack (裂缝) in the ice. The seal takes several deep breaths, and then she opens...