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The melting ice...not just a sight!
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It's a known fact that simplicity is often very appealing and has got so much to explore. So is the case with Antarctica. Its simple ecosystem and lack of biodiversity makes it an ideal place to study environmental factors that worsen over time and take the shape of global warming.
From being isolated from the rest of the world to accounting for rise in sea level by melting of its glaciers and causing disasters elsewhere, Antarctica has been a place that displays Earth's past, present and future.
The region is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world, so cold that the marine animals often retreat to the sea to warm up.
It holds 70 percent of Earth's fresh water, all piled up in the form ice, and if all that ever melts, the global sea levels would rise by 60 meters and even the start of it would result in many low lying areas submerged under water.
The continent which was once part of a single large landmass with rich diversity from various types of flora and fauna, now serves as a crucial element in the debate on climate change since it's the only place which has never sustained human population, has never been exploited and therefore remains relatively pristine and serves the right purpose.
At times, reality can be way beyond imagination or simply, we might not be able to say how massive something can be until we witness it.
For instance, the depleting ozone layer, the forests being cut, the excessive presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the fast and steady rise in human population in proportion to the limited natural resources, the fossil fuels being burnt and everything summed up would affect the activity of phytoplankton, the tiny forms of plant life on the sea that sustain the southern Ocean's food chain. This would in turn affect the growth of marine animals and birds and even the global carbon cycle. So, to save big organisms, the small organisms need to be cared for because minor changes have huge repercussions.
We must remember that even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things, the movement of a single snowflake.
So, even if we don't contribute to bigger changes for betterment, a small change that's positive for the environment does count from our end. This small change if taken by everyone, can definitely lead us the right way!
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It's a known fact that simplicity is often very appealing and has got so much to explore. So is the case with Antarctica. Its simple ecosystem and lack of biodiversity makes it an ideal place to study environmental factors that worsen over time and take the shape of global warming.
From being isolated from the rest of the world to accounting for rise in sea level by melting of its glaciers and causing disasters elsewhere, Antarctica has been a place that displays Earth's past, present and future.
The region is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world, so cold that the marine animals often retreat to the sea to warm up.
It holds 70 percent of Earth's fresh water, all piled up in the form ice, and if all that ever melts, the global sea levels would rise by 60 meters and even the start of it would result in many low lying areas submerged under water.
The continent which was once part of a single large landmass with rich diversity from various types of flora and fauna, now serves as a crucial element in the debate on climate change since it's the only place which has never sustained human population, has never been exploited and therefore remains relatively pristine and serves the right purpose.
At times, reality can be way beyond imagination or simply, we might not be able to say how massive something can be until we witness it.
For instance, the depleting ozone layer, the forests being cut, the excessive presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the fast and steady rise in human population in proportion to the limited natural resources, the fossil fuels being burnt and everything summed up would affect the activity of phytoplankton, the tiny forms of plant life on the sea that sustain the southern Ocean's food chain. This would in turn affect the growth of marine animals and birds and even the global carbon cycle. So, to save big organisms, the small organisms need to be cared for because minor changes have huge repercussions.
We must remember that even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things, the movement of a single snowflake.
So, even if we don't contribute to bigger changes for betterment, a small change that's positive for the environment does count from our end. This small change if taken by everyone, can definitely lead us the right way!
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