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= __**Human impacts in Antarctica**__ = ===//** Antarctica has a rich and abundant ecosystem. Antarctica is also one of the **** coldest, highest, windiest, driest and iciest continent and place on this planet. It is at the bottom of the earth and has been claimed segments for countries. The most area that has been claimed is by Australia. It has three months of darkness and three months of brightness in Antarctica. Antarctica is still a complicated continent. Humans have been travelling to Antarctica for centuries and the reason why some of the humans went to Antarctica is because of whaling. Whaling is a hobby or a sport of killing whales for their skin or meat. It was first introduced in Japan. Some of Antarctica's low temperatures contribute to the latitude. Did you know that East Antarctica is colder than West Antarctica? Also Antarctica restricted as a true desert. Antarctica's tourism will affect the climate of Antarctica. **//=== = = ===**// Antarctica used to be known as a pristine and intangible place, but through disturbance, humans have affected Antarctica which is now melting. Think about it carefully, do people know how much water Antarctica holds? Well, Antarctica contains seventy percent of our fresh and clean water and humans pollute the fresh water. Here is another question, what will happen when Antarctica melts? If Antarctica melts then segments of land will be covered by water causing the sea levels to rise rapidly. The sea levels doesn't only rise in one part, it rises in every corner of the Earth. What will happen to humans in that devastating problem? Well, humans will be affected by the water rising and will quickly become extinct. Can humans stop it from causing? Yes, definitely all humans have to do is stop polluting the world. Humans still thinks it's okay to pollute the world but it is not. Recently, there has been work done in space of Antarctica it is a satellite that is called Grace. Grace has recently noticed that Antarctica has recently lost hundreds of cubic kilometres of ice each year from the year 2002. Now companies all over the world haves meetings and in that meeting there will be a issue on Antarctica which a fifth of the humans are now helping to protect Antarctica by thorough check up on every tourist, scientist, etc. on what //// they are bringing to Antarctica. Even a microscopic egg from a potato that hasn't hatched yet can cause infection to Antarctica. The amount of tourist going to Antarctica each year is exceeding by ten thousand each season. If you think about it more 'logically' it is all the humans doing making the devastating cause, and the shocking thing is, humans may not have realised even now what the world is going to happen in the future. Humans are turning the world around and making all our kind, which is humans, extinct! //**===

= __Antarctica's environment__ = ===**// Most humans ﻿through their rubbish on the floor which gets caught in the winds which eventually blows into the oceans then floats to Antarctica's dry lands. It happens when people don't through their rubbish in the bin on their on the ship and they through rubbish over and into the sea. After when the rubbish in Antarctica's dry lands, animals start coming up to the surface and thinks it is food, for example, a clear plastic bag might seem like a jellyfish, and when the predators eat it, they will be stuck and suffocate one way or another. Everything through on to the ground will eventually be in Antarctica. //****// Although it doesn't snow in Antarctica, Antarctica is made out of ice, but Antarctica still has land but it is covered in food waste and waste disposal. Researchers only stay there for a short time of period. In Antarctica, researchers from different countries go to different areas of Antarctica. It is important that the method to protect Antarctica coops with the extreme, cold conditions. //**===

= __**﻿﻿Description** on human impacts__ = === **//Human impacts in Antarctica are increasing rapidly. Usually this cause is by the carbon dioxide. Thirty percent of the carbon dioxide goes into the water. Humans also does human impact in Antarctica to, scientist and workers left empty fuel drums, plotting sewage in the sea, killing and disturbing other species in the society that live in Antarctica to do some research or they kill it to eat it. We even have left bones of animals, tents, etc. It would be an honour to discover more about Antarctica, but if humans don't put a stop to this it will be the end for all. Humans have done enough already and there is a chance to turn back and do what is right. If they don't know what to do then they can always start throwing rubbish in the bin and picking up rubbish that isn't yours. After that, //****// living being could start to build until they have corrected their mistakes. //** **__ ﻿ ﻿﻿ __** //Human impacts in Antarctica are caused from all over the world and in Antarctica. These may be disposable tents, contaminating the soil, etc. Sealing began in the nineteenth century and stopped when the seals number declined. Whaling stopped in 1965 and they were commercial ling fishing in Antarctica in the year 1960. Other wastes are being carried by ship and out of Antarctica. Global warming applies to breaking up ice shelfs causing loss of habitat. It also causes ozone depletion and what it means is it describes two distinct, but related observations. Sealing, whaling and fishing are damaging the ecosystem. Numbers of other marine species have or are becoming threatened in the cause of people harvesting, over fishing or illegal fishing. Oil spills are increasing which causes pollution and drifts into Antarctica causing ice to fall. Some things that are left in Antarctica are like nuclear waste disposal, raw sewage can contaminate dangerous bacteria, viruses, detergent, solvents, metal, nitrates and phosphates. Some humans over fish one type of Increasing UV radiation may cause changes to phytoplankton societies causing impacts occurring up the food chain. The marine ecosystem has slowly become degraded through the introduction of pollution over fishing and other human activities. Humans also have driven lots of species to distinction.// === = **__Conclusion__** = ===// It is important to understand Antarctica's ecosystem and help protect Antarctica but humans need time to discover it. If we keep on destroying it then scientist won't know the history and more about Antarctica. Everyone human can help and make a difference. But there is no reason why humans should destroy this continent that means a lot to us. So humans should start doing what's right and little by little stop destroying this pristine environment. //===

This is the barest portion of rubbish in Antarctica.

This is only a segment a little bit bigger than the first one.

Scientist abandon lots of fuel drums. This last picture is the cause of what will happen at the end.

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 * URL || Description ||
 * [] || work in space on satttelite ||
 * [] || what we are doing in Antarctica ||
 * [] || human activities in Antarctica ||
 * [] || history of Antarctica ||
 * [] || human impacts and pollution ||
 * [] || the plants and the environment ||
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0WA3PIknCM&feature=player_embedded || Human impact ||
 * http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1943658,00.html || Brief information on Antarctica's history ||
 * http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/weather/climate.shtml || climate ||
 * [] || about antarctica ||
 * [] || about antarctica ||