"Warming Waters, Melting Ice, Force Walrus Away from Alaska's Hunters" by Rachel D’oro explains how global warming is driving away walrus, the Native Alaskan’s main source of food. First due to global warming, walruses are fleeing area’s in search of a better atmosphere with more ice. “Global warming is melting ice off Alaska’s coast. Walrus go where ice is best” (D’oro). Because the ice is melting, and walruses are leaving, this makes Native Alaskan’s rethink what their main source of food should be.…
Considering the harsh environment of the arctic tundra, it is extraordinary that humans could survive and even thrive in that environment. People have been living in the arctic of Alaska of r thousands of years before the Ipiutak people took root in the area. The Norton Tradition, Choris, Denbigh Flint Complex, and Dorset survived and thrive in coastal Alaska. The harsh environment didn’t deter humans from occupying the area. The Ipiutak were one such people that occupied the northern costal part of Alaska, but who were they and where did they originate from. This has been a much discussed about topic between archaeologists. Helge Larsen and Froelich Rainey’s analysis of the excavation at Point Hope suggested that “As INTIMATED IN THE…
Air pollution from PowerPlanet power plants are melting ice caps which destroy arctic animal habitats, which in return is killing the arctic species. Ice caps are sheets of ice that make up polar and sub-polar regions. Now with rising temperatures in the poles the ice caps melt and break off from the main lands. This will keep pushing animals inland, shrinking their habitable zone. WIth the shrinking of arctic animals’ habitat it drives them together which is not good for smaller animals who are prey to dominant species like polar bears. Ice caps can also seclude animals. Instead of you being on the block of ice, suppose it was a cute little arctic fox…
Important fact to consider is extinction risk is much smaller than total percentage of species influenced by climate change. This is a crucial little explored supporting detail to the author's claim of need to urgently curb climate change. Studies incorporate factors that both increase or decrease predicted risks. Evolution is the major factor for decreasing predicted risks, and it happens pretty slow. The extinction risk is predicted to grow exponentially with each degree of climate change. It's apparent we need to act now to save…
A popular stereotype given to Native Americans is they are all savages and hunt animals in a very animalist way. This is false when it comes to the Pima tribe, or as they call themselves Akimel O’odham meaning “river people”(“Akimel O’odham (Pima)”). The Pima tribe is known for farming and being very peaceful people. They live in the Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico area on two reservations called Gila River and Salt River. This area in which they Pima people live is also the Sonoran Desert. Even though the culture of the Pima people are slowing dying out it is one that will live forever in history (“History and Culture”). The reason they will be remembered is because of their history, housing and clothing, religion, and agriculture.…
The southeast Indians were a interesting group with many different and unique ways of life in this explanation I will tell you about their daily life. The southeast Indians wore clothing made of deerskin, fur, and porcupine quills; the men's clothing was a mix of a deerskin jacket and deerskin pant, and the women wore shawl/poncho and a dress, the men also occasionally wore a headdress. You can see their clothing depicted on all of the people in the exhibit, their clothing was important to them because it distinguished were they were from and what tribe they were in. Now that we have covered their clothing we can get into what they ate. The southeast Indians ate a mostly vegetarian diet and relied heavily on…
Change is inevitable and in most cases, change is a good, and much needed thing, especially when it comes from a place of adaptation and progression in a culture. However, there is a vast difference between culture change, and culture loss. While the gradual changing of a culture can be a revitalizing thing, the complete loss and total disappearance of a culture is never a thing to be celebrated. Less than ten years ago, a visit to the tropical rainforests between the Guaviare and Inirida rivers on the Amazonian basin of Colombia, you would have come across the indigenous people of the Nukak Maku tribe. Take a trip there today however, and the Nukak people will not be there. The Nukak people are just one of…
Indigenous people of the artic and anarchic areas are already being affected. Although, the artic and anarchic environments are harsh, they have very fragile ecosystems. The native peoples have adapted a lifestyle relaying on weather and the migratory cycles of animals through generations of knowledge. The warmer weather is melting ice, so they cannot travel across it as easily. The lack of ice bergs has made hunting seals harder. The rising sea levels from the melting ice caps produces stronger waves which erodes the coastal areas. The sea can also rise and cause fresh water ponds to empty into the oceans taking the fresh water marine live with it. Since the indigenous people mainly relay on hunting, they are worried about global warming impacts on food chains. Climate change is making the environment for lemmings, which are animals lower on the food chain, more difficult to survive. This affects animals higher on the food chain that depends on the lemmings as a food source. The same issues applies to polar bears that eat seals. Permafrost is melting causing mudslides on once solid, frozen earth. The locals often come together to form focus groups to discussed the current issues and gather information from another. There was even a conference by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2008 on “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change” to make policies to help future crises. I personally think…
the Sapa Inca was the high priest and army. At the bottom where the workers whose families were organized into groups. with such a big Empire the Incas needed to find ways to bring people together. they built 14 million roads and a lot of bridges so people could come together. They would run from their own hot to the next one to tell a message.…
On August 30th, 2017 on the website Science Daily it talks about the extinction of a small furry mammal known as an American Pika. These mammals had adapted to cold water temperatures and high elevation, but unfortunately died off due to climate change. The extinction of these mammals stretches extremely far going from Tahoe City to Truckee. The article says, "this local extinction is the largest area of Pika extinction yet reported for this modern era." A U.C Santa Cruz P.H.D candidate and author stated that the prehistoric temperature collapse after the last ice age still effects the climate today which is why the Pika died off in their very fitting environment. They say that by 2050 the climate will have changed in such a negative way for…
Hi, my name is Cava, and I am one of the Incas who survived the Spanish conquest. And this is my story……
How is global warming disrupting the natural Arctic wildlife patterns? It disrupts when the ice melts, when the animals go into hibernation. During the video about the inuits. The inuits need to know when the animals are out, if they don’t, then they might starve, because all people need to eat. The evidence shown shows why the inuits have to be…
This article explains the effects of change in climate regions all over the world. The part that focuses on the polar regions explain and points out the impacts that this climate change will have on the environment as a whole, and as a result the animals and other life forms living there. Debra A. Miller is a published author and an editor of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Debra A. Miller include Biodiversity (Current Controversies), Global Warming (Current Controversies). She was honored by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) with the 2006 Gold Anvil Award.…
The Puffin’s are affected by global warming's because since the waters are warming the fish are looking for a colder water which then makes them go further north and it is harder for the puffin’s to get food. Also since it is harder to get food, it is harder to breed or not even breed at all. If they can not breed, then the population will fall and eventually go extinct. We can help the puffins by polluting less so the Earth will not get warmer. Also there have been some some volunteers to help feed the puffins so they can eat, and breed.…
Tucked away in the vast Alaskan wilderness only assessable by boat or plane, lays the state capital, Juneau. This isolated town, and the people born and raised in it have seen a sight that many people can’t fathom. Many Americans see the world climate change, but don’t take action because they have not seen the major effects of it. Being born and raised in Juneau, Alaska I have sadly seen over a dozen glaciers recede at a rapid rate, each year being a record-breaking year. Years where snow fall has been minimal because the difference of a few degrees. Unfortunately, these unusual years are become the standard. The farther north you travel the larger the effect climate change has on the landscape and animals that inhabit it. Do you really want your children growing up not knowing what a polar bear was or asking why over 760 million…