Theme 4 - The Arctic - Natural Resources

Theme 4 - Arctic Animals

Pictures from National Geographic

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Theme 4 - The New Face of Greenland

Pictures of Greenland from National Geographic

Climatologist Konrad Steffen talks about the surprising speed of ice loss in Greenland.

Steffen, a professor at the University of Colorado, has spent each summer for 27 years measuring changes to the Greenland ice sheet.

Video from National Geographic

 

 

THEME 4 - Climate change in the Arctic

CLick on picture to go to National Geographic's article

Photograph by Paul Nicklen

Arctic Circle Ice

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice is in a "death spiral" due to rising temperatures, scientists said in 2008. Many marine species, such as these narwhals swimming through a bay in Nunavut, Canada, depend on the ice throughout their life cycles. Experts predict that summer Arctic ice may completely disappear within a few decades.

The Oldest Arctic Sea is disappearing

Picture from nasa.org Jan 1980

Picture from nasa.org Jan 2012

Arctic sea ice before and after record low

 -interactive map

Arctic sea ice has reached its lowest ever recorded extent, in 'dramatic changes', which signal that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region. Drag the slider across the map to see how the ice has shrunk between 1979 and 2012

 

 

 

Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean is vanishing rapidly

From www.economist.com Sep 22nd 2012

 

 

 Click in map to watch the video and read the article

 

 

  

 

Listen to the story:

Trying to Unravel the Mysteries of Arctic Warming

from www.npr.org

An iceberg is seen melting off the coast of Ammasalik, Greenland, in July 2007. This year, scientists say sea-ice extent in the Arctic has reached its lowest level since monitoring by satellite began in 1979, the result of rising temperatures.

 

THEME 3 - Cities and Urbanisation in the UK

• Urban Sprawl

How did Britain become an urban nation from it's rural roots? The industrial revolution has seen our cities swell beyond all recognition.

• New Manchester

In one human lifetime Britain's industrial landscape has changed beyond recognition. Manchester has reinvented itself. Factories have been replaced by leisure and culture, and the biggest and tallest statement of the new aspirations is Beetham Tower.



•  The changing face of London

Aerial shots and archive footage are used to introduce London Docklands and to outline its long history. During the late 1930s, London Docks was the busiest port in the world but, by the late 1970s, the docks had become obsolete and the area had become a derelict wasteland. Archive footage is also used to show how the docks were transformed during the 1980s and 1990s by the London Docklands Development Corporation into a successful centre for trade.