New york sinkhole

New York, NY – It started out as just a small pothole. Then it became a bigger pothole. Then it became one of the seven great wonders of New York.

A sinkhole the size of a New York intersection opened up in midtown Manhattan. Some call it the Hole To Hell. Some call it a death trap.

Rocco Pisano, who is in charge of Street Maintenance for the City of New York says: “Forget about it. We might just have to live with it.”

Nobody knows exactly how deep the sinkhole goes or how they would go about trying to fill it. Respected sinkhole expert Dr. Dennis Joska explains that “some of these stinkin’ holes can go down a frickin’ mile, and they really piss me off.”

In the meantime, New York shoppers and commuters (and taxi cab drivers) will have to steer clear of this deep problem. Rocco admits: “We don’t know zactly how many people or cars have been swallowed up by this monster of a hole. But we do know that more and more people go missing everyday!”

Fighting Over Herring - the Little Fish that Feeds Multitudes

Fighting Over Herring - the Little Fish that Feeds Multitudes

Summary:

This article is titled "Fighting Over Herring- the Little Fish that Feeds Multitudes", is by National Geographic. This article is about small fish called, "herring", which people fish for food. They are silver and oily. They can be fished in the Pacific Ocean and come near the shores of British Columbia. The basis of this article is that there are contradictions on whether to fish herring or not due to concern of over fishing them. The Canadian Government has allowed nets to scoop up these little fish. This has sparked some objections of many in British Columbia.

What's There:

Where this issue is currently happening is in British Columbia. Why this is happening is because in some areas, the herring population are a fraction of what they were, which concerns people. What is happening is that the Canadian Government has allowed fishing nets to catch herring. This article had been posted on February 12, 2015. This statement has been going on for two years, so since 2014 and 2015. To whom this problem concerns are people of British Columbia, including the native people, the scientist who are lending their knowledge to the debate, the Canadian government, and some commercial fishers.

Why is it There:

You can herring in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Pacific Ocean, but this article is specifically talking about pacific herring. Pacific herring would be found in the Pacific Ocean. East of the Pacific Ocean is British Columbia. Being the close proximity of the two, makes it an ideal natural resource. This problem can connect to what we talked about this past week because it is all about how the geography plays a part in what resource is extracted. It is an issue because we should not over fish them to the point where there population is drastically low.

Why Care:

We should care about this issue because these fish can become extinct if we endlessly fish them with no end. Another reason on why we should care about this problem is that many people get their food from eating herring, so over fishing them would eliminate them from other people's diets. Also, if we over fish them to the point where there are no more herring to fish, that would lead into job loss being that there will be no fish to catch. This also connects to when we were talking about natural resources in class from Newfoundland, and how there was a huge fishing industry. But also how the fish that was caught there were so over fished, that they had to stop the fishing to allow their population to rebuild. Now, their industry is smaller. This connects to the article on how people are afraid of the herring being over fished.

Klondike Gold Rush

The search for Gold in the Yukon started in 1874.  Over 100 000 of people searching/hoping to find gold.  Some became wealthy but majority went in vain. Many died along the way due to the weather conditions and the climate. Yukon up north resulting the cold temperature. Only about 40% got some gold. Gold is very valuable and it is mined. In most mines gold is invisible. Many people want to get money but they don't think about the conditions they have to go through.

Which side are you on

Sharing Saskatchewan's resource wealth with First Nations has been a political hot potato in the province, but many continue to support the idea, Vote Compass says.

Neither the Saskatchewan Party nor the New Democrats currently support sharing provincial revenue from things like oil and gas with First Nations.

In the 2011 election, the NDP campaigned on a promise to share resource wealth with First Nations. However, more recently, NDP Leader Cam Broten has said that's not something he's promising this time.

Resource revenue sharing was a major plank in the NDP's platform in the 2011 provincial election, but more recently party leader Cam Broten said the idea didn't work for him or the province and would not be back.

But the idea isn't dead yet, at least among NDP supporters, according to information collected from Vote Compass, which is CBC News' civic engagement application.

"With regard to resource revenue sharing, the NDP seems to be at odds with its supporters, a majority (62 per cent) of whom agree that the provincial government should share its resource revenues with First Nations," said Gregory Kerr, research manager with Vox Pop Labs, which created Vote Compass for CBC News.

"This is in stark contrast to Saskatchewan Party supporters, 67% of whom oppose such measures."

Climate Change Impact

          

          Climate Change has definitely made an impact in Nunavut. There are positive and negative impacts.

The melting ice may clear up and allow ships to travel through the Arctic however this does affect economic benefits such as hunting, fishing, wildlife and others. Climate change also raise risk of oil spills and chemical spills however this opens up oil deposits that companies will strive for.

Sink hole in Boughton near Canterbury swallows tree in front garden

In this news article, a gaping sinkhole swallowed an eight foot tree.

This picture was taken 5 minutes after the fall

What's there:

This occurred in February 24th, 2016. This tree was famous for its size and height. The tree belonged to its owner "Zoe Slater" that noticed the tree was missing from her property. Many people of the town were sad to see such destruction happen to a tree that they all knew of.


Why's it there:

 This may have happened because of a pipe underground that was leaking water caused the dirt to soften resulting for the tree to collapse because the dirt couldn't handle the amount of pressure the weight was giving off because of the water softening it.

Why care:

Not a lot of trees have the potential to grow this big. We should care because trees this humongous should be remembered and famous and have meaning, obviously Mrs. Slater was upset after losing a tree that was bigger than most of the trees in the forests in the area she lived in.


I decided to share this article because we were discussing about sinkholes in a few classes, and I thought you would all enjoy recognizing real life situations that happened about sinkholes!

Beluga Whales

Beluga Whales are going extinct in Canada because Eskimos kill them for food and companies make lip stick out of there blubber. This relates to what we learn in class because we talked about fishing and cod fish going extinct.  


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New Brunswick's iconic Elephant Rock Collapsed

The Elephant Rock was one of the intriguing structures in The Hopewell Rocks. The rock collapsed

on March 14th 2016, 100-200 tonnes of rock fell to the ground.

Elephant Rock was always visited by many and its sad to see it broken down. It was one of the most popular tourism spots because it was part of The Hopewell Rocks and the area has the world's highest tides.

Kevin Snair, the supervisor of the park's interpretive services explained that this time of the year the rocks get fragile. The snow melts, water flows into the cracks, then freezes again when the temperature drops at night, which weakens the stone.

Link

New view of Lake Winnipeg's watershed  
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/blog/posting.asp?ID=1907
An article from the Canadian national geographic, details the the intricate activities of the winnipeg watershed which is an underground water " fresh water ocean" more like a water highway in carries water out to calgary and edmonton also it mixes with the salt water hudson's bay.

Earlier in the unit we focuses on glacial and mountain water sources, the winnipeg watershed is formed from those activities. (The melting of glaciers and fresh water mountain springs and spores)

Elephant Rock Collapses-

 Elephant Rock Collapses
In New Brunswick

The Elephant Rock was a attraction to many residents and tourist in New Brunswick over 200,000 people visited The Elephant Rock every single year. The Rock broke because a erosion happened at the coastline of New Brunswick so it broke the rock. Also they knew the rock was gonna go down soon seeing that water goes into the cracks every night that are in the rocks and then at night it gets cold enough that it freezes again. It eventually kept doing that every night like a Cycle. This connects to Erosion 

Freezing rain

read the full article here

The article talks about how Toronto was covered in a layer of ice, making it hard to travel and closing schools.The total amount of ice was 10mm(which is a lot)

Sink-hole blocks Laval St. near Carré St-Louis

In this article they talk about how a sink-hole was formed on Laval St. that managed to break the 125 years old water main. This caused the water to be cut of for about 24 hours. Many residents were not happy blaming it on how the city was not using the money incorrectly by using it on festivals and not on fixing their city and making it safe. The sink-hole was not to big though only being 6 metres by 4 metres and the city of Montreal's workers were on the scene and got the sink-hole fixed in a few days. They just hope this doesn't happen again.

The polar ice cap as a whole is shrinking. Images from NASA satellites show that the area of permanent ice cover is contracting at a rate of 9 percent each decade. If this trend continues, summers in the Arctic could become ice-free by the end of the century.

Canada's Fresh Water

In almost every part of Canada there are lakes and rivers. Canada has over 2 million lakes covering 7% of the land mass. The largest lake is the Northwest Territories’ Great Bear Lake. It is estimated that Canada is home to one-seventh of the world’s fresh water.

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Earthquake in Alberta

ENERGY COMPANY HALTS OPERATIONS AFTER EARTHQUAKE IN ALBERTA FRACKING ZONE 

This area reported to have the province's largest earthquake in more than a year now. An energy company has stopped operating due to a heavy hydraulic fracking.

How ice sheets collapse—a lesson from the past

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-ice-sheets-collapsea-lesson.html

The article titled as How ice sheets melt a lesson from the past, the article proclaims that ice sheets are melting in Antarctica as a result of an increase in air and ocean temperatures. This is demonstrated through scientific studies, these studies data display that sea level could increase about 60 cm to 3meters by 2300. This is done when ice sheets loose mass and transfer water to the oceans.              

The two most vastly remote places in the world are greenland, and Antarctica, and these two places have the most impact on climate change. As a result of warmer temperatures, melt the ice sheets located in Greenland , as a result water drains off into the ocean. However in Antarctica, temperatures are very cold, ice sheets rarely melt, this rise of sea levels is due to ice streams. Ice streams, are zones of the ice sheet that flow much faster than the surrounding ice that have great masses. The ice streams then discharges ice into the ocean in the form of icebergs that eventually melt.

Data shows that there are approximately 50 major ice streams in Antarctica, this accounts for nearly 90% of the ice that melts in a year. Due to the fact that Ice streams change their positions it makes predicting future changes of ice sheets as a result of ice streams very difficult. On the other hand it is fairly easy to estimate how much additional melting may be a result if air temperatures increase by a couple of degrees.

How can we find more information about ice sheets, a relatively new approach is to look at the past and analyze how ice streams responded to previous periods of climate warming. For example look back to the last ice age when an ice sheet the size of Antarctica disappeared over North America.
The "North American Ice Sheet" engulfed most of Canada, researches used satellite imagery to see land forms that were left behind, as a result were able to map the location of the major ice streams that were once active during this time period. with access to this data scientists were able to see when these streams were turned on and off, and how much ice was melted as a result of the ice streams. Data indicated that larger ice sheets simply have more ice streams.

Why do we care, we care because rising sea level could be very dangerous and catastrophic, there would be many floods in places surrounded by water, which would make that place undesirable to live in and maintain. Some places would just get completely wiped out due to the fact that those places are at sea level right now. These are some of the reasons why we care and that we need to see that the actions we commit which harms the environment will soon end up harming us more 

               

Made by: Rahman Khan