For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh’ to us is ‘home’ for them.
SYLVIA EARLETo lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It’s not just a cost to the people who live there. It’s a cost to all people everywhere.
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
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For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see.
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My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.
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The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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In terms of personal choices, let’s all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
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And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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