Friday, March 20, 2009
Website:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/science/earth/20bears.html?_r=1&ref=science Authour: Andrew C.Revkin Date of publication: March 19, 2009 This article tell us about the need to protect polar bears in the Arctic due to climate change, which is identifed as “the most important long-term threat” to the bears. Nations that are near the Arctic have already created a treaty nearly four decades ago to protect polar bears. Some of this kind of protection are aimed at limiting direct threats to bear populations from increasing tourism, shipping and oil and gas drilling in the warming region. However it is mentioned in the article that without worldwide cooperation, it would be unable to tackle the problem of saving the polar bears. I find out that the artcile hold some very important lessons. First, the mention of climate change. Climate change, which was identifed as the main threat to the polar bears, is a very serious problem as the change in climate cause bring about a decrease in the number of polar bears as the change in climate can and will melt the ice which is need for the polar bears to move around on. Secondly, the increasing tourism, shipping and oil and gas drilling is also one of the problems that is identifed as a threat to the polar bears. To make matter worse, those threat are cause by humans. This certainly proves that we are partly to blame for what the polar bears are experiencing now. To sum up, protecting the polar bears in the Arctic are very important as if polar bears were to be extinct, it would be like a human body missing out one important organ. I am sure u do not want your polar bear soft toy to be the only polar bear that u see, right?(------Done by: Eric Tan------Index number: 23------Science Article for week 10-----)
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