Resurrection Island, also known as South Georgia is a beautiful island with a variety of different climates, animals, and plants. South Georgia has weather that is unpredictable and changes regularly. This is due to its southern latitudes and low-pressure areas. The island is known to have some of the strongest winds in the world. There are many different animals such as penguins, fur seals, elephant seals, and kelp gulls. The island usually has krill brought up by currents from the Arctic Peninsula. One or twice in a decade this krill upbringing dose not occur. This is a problem because many animals rely on the krill for food and many interesting animals follow or come for the arrival of the krill. Because of global warming sea ice has been melting and shrinking. The krill rely are are dependent in the winter on this sea ice to survive. This may have something to do with why they are not coming some years. The warming is strongest near the surface which does not help with the issue of melting sea ice.
I think South Georgia is a beautiful island with a variety of wildlife. All the ice and glaciers are beautiful. I hope, in the long run, the island and other places like it do not end as a result of harmful human activities. It would be a shame to have something so amazing and unique go to waste because of the human race.
-Taylor Neuburg
Once again we see the human chain reaction. We pollute, then heat the earth, causing global warming. Then global warming melts our glaciers which affects the krill in the ocean and in turn harms aquatic biomes. And eventually effects specific areas, such as South Georgia. when one thing in the environment is harmed everything, is, because it is all intertwined
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