Issues: Global Warming

Polar Thaw: Global Warming in the Arctic and Antarctic
Photographs from 'World View of Global Warming' by Gary Braasch

 
Link to intro
  
Link: Journey to the ice
Link: Glacier gives way
Link: Warming Adelie penguins
Link: Garden research
Link: Caribou crossing a climate watershed
Link: Native folkways eroding away
 Link: Disintegrating ice shelf
Link: Polar thaw bears down
Link: Adelie penguins
Link: Boreal overview
Link: Dying forests
Link: Tipping the balance



POLAR THAW BEARS DOWN, Barrow, Alaska.Photo from World View of Global Warming by Gary Braasch

Research shows that diminishing polar ice directly affects the world's 22,000 polar bears. As the summer season lengthens, their dens may melt earlier, and their natural hibernation patterns may be interrupted. They are forced to travel further from their preferred icy habitat to hunt for food, and the area in which they can forage is decreased.

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All photos © Gary Braasch


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