Competition for the Arctic!

     With global warming in effect, this has started to melt the ice and snow in the Arctic. The Arctic is estimated to hold the world's largest remaining untapped gas reserve. Currently only a few countries have a piece of the Arctic to claim to be theirs, but most of the Arctic is neutral ground.

    Why does this matter?

   With millions of people using gas to do their basic needs everyday, natural gas will not last forever. Once gas and oil is used, you cannot get it back. With the Arctic potentially holding the most remaining natural gas left on this planet, this could be an international problem as many countries will be fighting for this land.

How will this effect our environment?

   If an oil spill were to happen in the Arctic, it would truly be almost impossible to clean up as there is no effective way to clean up oil in icy water. Also, it would take days for help to come, as the Arctic is very hard to get to. Finally, ocean noise could injure marine mammals because they use sound to navigate.

   In conclusion, with the Arctic melting it could potentially be a disaster as many countries try to get their natural gas, which could hurt the environment and animals nearby.

- http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/10/who_owns_the_arctic.html

- http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/what_we_do/oil_gas/

- http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/12/141217/oil-natural-gas-denmark-north-pole-arctic/

Suburban Sprawl, Its Causes, and Its Effects on Your Area

http://www.useful-community-development.org/suburban-sprawl.html

This article is is focused on the effects of suburban sprawl. Suburbs are cheaper to live in than compared to the city. They are desirable places to live and raise a family while having a lot of open space whether it be from the open roads to your front yard. Suburbs have many similar housing designs with most of them being fairly close to each other.The people are friendly and are apart of their community.Its just like living in the city but cheaper, quieter,and more comfortable,also buying goods coasts less.Those are just the positive parts of living in the suburbs and there are many negatives.Suburbs are usually being built on excellent farmland which is causing less and less crops being harvested each year.If your jib is in the city you would have to drive there but there would be many others doing the same thing causing lots of traffic,air pollution, and would cause you to spend more on gas money while wasting some of your time. Houses in the suburbs maybe cheap to buy but building those houses in the first place are a lot more expensive. If you live in a new suburbs but the metropolitan area continues to sprawl soon enough it will be your housing that will be considered obsolete and while the government loses money. There are more reasons why suburbs are a bad development and to stop more of them being built is by having more development around the edges of cities instead.

Terrifying footage captures the moment an entire truck is swallowed by a sinkhole in the middle of a Chinese city 

A cement truck was traveling over a road in Tiantai, Zhejiang, east China well a huge sinkhole opened up under the truck and swallowed it. The driver escaped the vehicle as the back trailer was overturned and splintered. Traffic video cameras captured the incident and released it to the public. The road has been closed down and city has not giving out word of when it will be back up. 

Sinkhole shuts down northbound I-5 near Tracy

Caltrans Officials have shut down all northbound lanes of Interstate 5 because of a sinkhole that opened up. The sinkhole opened up at 11 am and is near highway 132. The sinkhole has reported to be 5 feet wide in diameter. It is not know what has caused the sink hole at this time. 

http://www.abc10.com/news/sinkhole-shuts-down-northbound-i-5-near-tracy/225028715

 Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry

http://www.thenation.com/article/global-warming-terrifying-new-chemistry/

Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry

The article titled as Global Warming's Terrifying New Chemistry, talks about how methane is taking the place of carbon dioxide due to companies shutting down use of coal fired factories, and replaced with ones that burn natural gases. The reason being that these types of factories release less carbon dioxide but the problem with that is studies show that these natural gas infrastructures are leaking large amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere.The leaks have enough methane to completely wipe out most of the gains Obama administration’s work on climate change has done. This effects Canada because we are America's neighboring country and with all that methane being blow north it will effect us as well.We should care about this not just because of the amount of pollution being made or how it would effect global warming in a disastrous way but to our safety as well. Methane is a fire hazard so unexpectedly a fire could go off, secondly it can effect humans in terrible ways such as sickness,vomiting, nausea,even frostbite (turns exposed skin whitish/yellowish), and intestinal pains. That is why we should care because of all these reasons.

Aurora borealis

Aurora Borealis

Canada's northern latitude makes it an ideal place to catch the aurora borealis. Created when charged particles from the sun collide with Earth's upper atmosphere, auroras vary in color from red to green to blue and vary in shape from drapes to arcs to bands.

“Into the bowl of the midnight sky / Violet, amber and rose…” Famed gold rush poet, Robert Service, was inspired by the North and enthralled by the northern lights.

Those same mesmerizing skies arrive each fall as darkness returns to Yukon nights. You might first see a hint of neon colour, then a jagged burst of green, and soon you're transfixed by shimmering aurora borealis. Dependent on auroral activity and clear skies, every appearance of the northern lights is special.  

 http://www.travelyukon.com/Explore/Northern-Lights

House prices in Canada have jumped through the roof!

      According to CBCNEWS, house prices in Canada have risen by 15% in March 2016. Since March 2015 the average house price has risen by 15% to $508, 567.

     Why Care?

     If a family were to buy a house, this could be tricky for the family since house prices have increased quite a bit. Houses that you were to think are perfect, might just be too much for your budget. This could force families to move to a different house, that is not as comfortable as the previous house that you looked at.

What could you do?

    Nowadays, there are many different ways of buying or making your new home, that is much cheaper, such as a house made out of recycled material, or a house that is shared by many other people. These types of houses will help you get away from those expensive houses in the city and help you save thousands of dollars! If you don't mind living with other people or living in a house made from recycled material, then these two options are definitely the way to go.

- http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-house-prices-march-1.3537143