BIO:BLOG

Dr Summerhayes - Climate change in the Antarctic

Dr. Colin Summerhayes is a marine geologist and an oceanographer who came to talk to us about how his work into human impact on the environment. He revealed how his job enables him to travel to places including Antarctica and meet new people from across the world. He went on to explain that when the Antarctic ice melts, some of it would break off, detach from the land and float away. We also learnt how many buildings around rivers were ill-prepared for the effects of global warming. The buildings are at the risk of being flooded because of when they were built against the water, the construction workers didn't take into account the water rising. One of the aspects that I found most interesti

Recent Posts
Archive