environment

The article "Arctic Wintertime Sea Ice Extent is among Lowest on record" by Marie Jose Vinas talks about the annual winter time peak. The arctic sea reached a maximum of 5.59 million square miles of ice surface cover making it the second lowest on record, only beaten by last year's record by 23,200 square miles. Annually, the ice in the Arctic thickens and thins over the year and the past 4 years have seen the Arctice ice cover diminish slowly.

                  Canada’s boreal forest spans across the most easterly part of Newfoundland and Labrador to the far reaches of Yukon, making it one of the world’s largest carbon sinks and is home to an abundance of wildlife species. According to an article written by Ainslie Cruickshank, reporter for the Toronto Star, called ‘U.S. environmental group raises alarm on clear-cutting in boreal forest’, details that Canada’s logging industry has significantly increased net total of carbon emissions equivalent to 5.5 million car emissions annually.

            Climate change seems to have our undivided attention as its effects span every cultural, social, and economic reach of our earth’s populace. In a nutshell, carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere resulting from anthropogenic activity has initiated the rapidly accelerated warming of temperatures globally. We hear through the media on a regular basis, just how imperative it is that we halt the rise before it exceeds unrecoverable levels and drastic changes begin to occur in every facet of the environment.