By Edward Struzik
Future Arctic finds the interior tale of the way politics and weather switch are changing the polar global in a manner that might have profound results on economics, tradition, and the surroundings as we all know it. Struzik takes readers up mountains and cliffs, and alongside for the trip on snowmobiles and helicopters, sailboats and icebreakers. His go back and forth partners, from natural world scientists to army strategists to indigenous peoples, proportion diversified insights into the technological know-how, tradition and geopolitical tensions of this beautiful position. With their support, Struzik starts off piecing jointly an environmental puzzle: How may possibly the land’s such a lot iconic species—caribou, polar bears, narwhal—survive? the place will migrating birds flock to? How will ocean currents shift? And what primary alterations will oil and fuel exploration have on economies and ecosystems? How will mammoth unclaimed areas of the Arctic be divided?
a distinct mixture of intensive on-the-ground study, compelling storytelling, and coverage research, Future Arctic bargains a brand new examine the adjustments taking place during this distant, mysterious quarter and their far-reaching effects.
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The plume of pollutants migrated several hundred kilometers downstream to Fort McMurray before dissipating sufficiently to prevent harm to the delta. Even then, detectable levels of contaminants were found there a year later. The oil sands landscape, of course, is much closer to the delta than the Obed mine site is. It is also a very different place now than it was in 1982 when there were only two companies mining for bitumen. Production has increased dramatically and so has the amount of toxic tailings.
It is so big that the 235-square-mile Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary, summer home to sixty thousand nesting shorebirds, represents less than 5 percent of the area that the delta covers. Before the Mackenzie River reaches the Arctic Ocean, it branches into three main channels. Ice jams along one or more of these channels cause them to overflow their banks just as it used to do in the Peace-Athabasca with some degree of regularity. That is how most of the forty thousand lakes in the Mackenzie delta are maintained.
That’s how Frank won the Northwest Territories fiddle championship one year. That’s also how Cowboy Joe got his name. His Cree name used to be Dragonfly, but one night after celebrating a bit too much, he stole one of the town’s water-drawing horses and took off with a cowboy hat on his head. It was several hours before the local Mounties finally got their man. The good life, however, began to unravel in the late 1960s when water levels at the north end of the delta began dropping dramatically. Frank and his fellow trappers had seen water levels rise and fall before, but they had never seen anything quite as dramatic as this time.