Here is the amazing story of Soviet penetration into the Arctic: the establishment of regular sea and air communications along the northern shore of Siberia, the creation of cities well inside the...
Select Chapter 15 - Environmental risk from exploitation of the Arctic Book chapterAbstract only Chapter 15 - Environmental risk from exploitation of the Arctic Pages 255-264 Purchase View chapter View abstract Select Chapter 16 - Militarization of the Arctic Book chapterAbstract only Chapter 16 - Mi...
3d), and is driven by the global intensification of human threats, including habitat destruction, direct exploitation, pollution, and invasive non-native species2,5. Known extinctions associated with this ongoing wave include ʻĀmaui (Myadestes woahensis) from Hawaii, Lyall’s Wren (Traversia ...
The pixel size of EW data is 40 m × 40 m in both the azimuth and range directions. 2.2. ASCAT Wind Data ASCAT is a spaceborne C-band (5.255 GHz) scatterometer that was launched on the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) MetOp-A satellite in ...
This layer would almost certainly have been stripped off during water transport, so the possibility of driftwood is effectively discounted33. Further, the Norse would have had no need to reclaim deadwood because fresh wood was abundant in the region at the time13. Finally, if it were scavenged...
The Yangtze River has the highest fish species diversity in the Palearctic region, which historically supported 416 fish species with 178 of these species being endemic to this basin (Ye et al. 2011). At the same time, it is the most important freshwater fishery in China, which once provide...
5. It can be learned from the passage that oil exploitation beneath ANWR’s frozen earth ___. A. involves a lot of technological problems B. remains a controversial issue C. is expected to get under way soon D. will enable the U.S. to be oil independent 相关知识点:...
emerged as a major maritime transporter of the world’s goods as well as a world leader in specialized shipbuilding. In the 1970s the exploitation of offshore oil andnatural gasbecame the major maritime industry, with Norway emerging in the 1990s as one of the world’s leadingpetroleumexporters...
In order not to misinterpret any such symptoms, a detailed knowledge of the composition of the Arctic aerosol and its possible influence on the radiation balance is essential, and in view of the future oil exploitation activities in this region, the necessary investigations should not be delayed ...
Fig. 1: Permafrost sites from the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada. Base map data retrieved from GeoYukon (hosted by the Government of Yukon); contours elevation unit: meters above sea level. See Supplementary Fig.2for a description of inset map data sources. ...