Antarctica: The Meltdown
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009If you are concerned about the environment and the ill effect of pollution on it, then small but important news might have drawn your attention one year back on 26th March 2008… news about Antarctica. The news read that a giant ice shelf from the coastal area of the frozen continent has collapsed into the sea. This information is derived from the satellite images of that region. The giant portion of ice has melted down all of a sudden. Such a kind of collapse is generally termed as a runaway collapse by the scientists. The scientists have also deduced that the collapse of this giant ice shelf, which amounts to nearly 160 square miles, is because of global warming.
Though an unpopulated continent unlike Asia, Africa and Australia; Antarctica has always been a matter of grave concern for the environmentalists as well as to the scientists. This sudden meltdown of that giant ice shelf has raised many brows and has given birth to a number of questions regarding issues relating to environment. The environmental issues include global warming, green house effect and decaying of ozone layer. These are grave issues that require immediate attention both from the scientists and environmentalists. And we the general people too cannot sit still waiting for the scientists to take effective measures.
Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica.
Looking back in time I can still remember the thoughts of horror that cropped up in my mind reading the news. Most of you people might also have the same reaction. It is not just a news that is to be read and to be forgotten afterwards. We need to give this matter prime importance. If such grave environmental problems continue in the long run, life on earth may not stand a chance. A day may come when there will be nothing called ‘land’ in this huge planet owing to the meltdown of the giant ice shelves in Antarctica. Are we going to gift such a horrible future to our generations to come? Or are we going to pull up our socks to save our green planet… it’s time for us to think and act accordingly.
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