Polar Environment: Issues and Challenges

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Polar regions – Arctic Ocean in the north and Antarctica in the south – are permanently covered with ice or snow. The average temperatures of even the warmest summer months rise only a few degrees above freezing point and in the summer the seas are covered by floating ice. The core of the high Arctic is a great ocean, 5.5 million sq.m. in area, covered all year by ice that drifts about the North Pole. Antarctica, by contrast, is a disc of land, with the South Pole near its centre, covering an area only a little smaller than the Arctic Ocean and carrying 95 per cent of the world’s permanent ice. This book covers authentic scientific details on important issues of polar environment. The themes taken for elaborate description are: the polar regions; environments of polar regions; climate of polar regions; terrestrial environments; freshwater environments; marine environments; plant life; polar animals, birds of water and land; marine mammals; land mammals; man and the polar regions etc. Academics besides the scientists in the field concerned will find this book of utmost use.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravi Mishra

Dr. Ravi Mishra is Research Associate in Environmental Planning and Coordination Organisation (DPCO), Bhopal. He has written over 30 papers in various National and International journals as well as presented in conferences. His work has since 1991 been closely connected with Hydrogeology, Geomorphology, Remote Sensing Application, Water Pollution and Environmental Management studies. Currently, he is also actively engaged with the research work related to Conservation and Management of Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve. He was recipient of the ISCA Young Scientist Award-2001 by the Indian Science Congress Association, for his contribution to suggest a new model for measuring ground water pollution potential. In 1991 he also got the M.P. Young Scientist Award by the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal. Dr. Mishra obtained his M.Sc. degree from APS University, Rewa in 1991. he did his M.Phil. degree from School of Studies in Geology, Vikram University, Ujjain in 1992. In 1999, he was awarded the degree of Ph.D. from Vikram University, Ujjain. He served as Assistant Professor in Madhav College, Ujjain for one year in 1999. Later he joined Regional Research Laboratory (RRL), Bhopal in 2000 as a Senior Project Fellow.