Arctic sea ice likely reached its smallest extent for 2019 on September 18. At 1.6 million square miles (4.15 million square km), that minimum is now in a 3-way tie for 2nd-smallest in the satellite record. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/2019-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-2nd-lowest-video…
Tag: Walruses
Vikings probably hunted Iceland’s walruses to extinction for ivory
Iceland had a unique population of walruses that disappeared after people first settled there – probably because the Vikings hunted them to extinction Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216471-vikings-probably-hunted-icelands-walruses-to-extinction-for-ivory/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us
The epic Netflix documentary offers a visual banquet, but it doesn’t sugarcoat the effects of humans on the environment. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/arts/television/our-planet-netflix-review.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…