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Friday 5 February 2016

Mother Nature

Mother Nature
Well, here I am at the scientific research station in Antarctica, the coldest. windiest, and driest continent in the world! It's summer right now, so the weather is quite 'mild' - it's 0°C today! There are still a lot of gales, though, and of course, the sun never sets in the summer, which is really weird! Despite the freezing cold, the scenery and wildlife here are incredible. There are seals everywhere and yesterday I saw a humpback whale.
Extremely weird.
In the world there are many extremely weird. Such as:Volcano Surfing,River Bugging, Wok Racing.
Global Warning!
The Earth is heating up and most scientists believe that it's all our fault. When w e burn fossil fuels, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide increase and surround the earth like a thick blanket. This traps heat and temperatures rise.
According to recent climate reports, melting ice from the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers could cause sea levels to rise by about 1 metre by 2100. If this happens, whole countries such as the Maldives will vanish and millions in low-lying areas like parts of Bangladesh will lose their homes.
Global warming is a serious threat to wildlife. In particular, Arctic polar bears are in great danger. The ice that they hunt from is melting very fast, so they have to swim further and further to find food.
Heavy rain and snow, storms, heatwaves, droughts, more powerful hurricanes and tornadoes... these all happen a lot more frequently these days and more and more climatologists now believe this is because of global warming.

Blake Stanfield w as so excited about his father’s birthday surprise - a rafting trip in A la ska but it turned into a terrifying 5-day fight fo r survival!