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...whales trapped in the Arctic ice, struggling for air, and the world responded. The U.S. and the Soviet Union cooperated. Yet we see 40,000 babies starving every day, and we don't react. What is wrong with...
Recent research has confirmed that this is more than just theory. By drilling deep into Antarctic and Arctic ice, scientists have been able to measure the amount of CO2 in air bubbles trapped in ancient layers of snow. They have also looked at fossilized plant tissues for clues as to how warm the air was during the same period. The conclusion: CO2 levels and global temperatures have risen and fallen together, over tens of thousands of years. And there is evidence from space: Mars, which has little CO2 in its atmosphere, has a surface temperature that reaches -24 degrees...
...Minerals Management. Known by critics as the Assistant Secretary for Oil, this official will help decide whether to continue such controversial Reagan policies as the sale of wilderness areas and extension of oil-drilling rights off the coasts and Alaska's North Slope, and whether to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development...
...story of those remarkable summers is told in a pair of picture-filled books to be published this month: Mech's The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack (Voyageur Press; $24.95) and Brandenburg's White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend (NorthWord Press; $40). Later this fall Brandenburg's film documentary of the second expedition will air as a National Geographic TV special. These portraits of the Arctic wolf will surprise many readers and viewers. For all its vaunted prowess as a fierce predator, the wolf leads a tough life and relies on complex social behavior to survive...
Despite the unforgiving conditions of the High Arctic, Mech and Brandenburg discovered that the Ellesmere wolves are secure, unlike their brethren elsewhere. Except for parts of Canada, Alaska and Minnesota, Canis lupus has all but vanished from North America. Wolves have been killed as a result of their exaggerated reputation as plunderers of livestock or just because people hate and fear them...