Environmental

file
-Information about toxic dumping in the seas.

-Information about melting ice in Greenland.

-Graphic of the evolution of the temperatures in

Spain.

- Images of the to ice shelves on the Antarctic

peninsula.

-A list with the terminology you have learnt in this

file.
 1-Toxic dumping in the seas
1- 1960 (near Brasil)
On December 6, the tank boat “Sinclair Petrolere” spilled
65000tn of petrol.

2- 1967(archipelago of the Scilly to Cornwall's south west

of England)
The super petroleum “Torrey canyon” spiller 120.000tn of
petrol.
For three followed days eight planes stopped to fall down
1000bombs, 44.000 l of kerosene, 12.000 of napalm and
16 missiles
 1989 (in the Prince William Sound,
Alaska)
On March 24, the oil tanker "Exxon
Valdez" spilt more than 40 million l. of
crude oil 40 and 50.000 tn. in the
Prince William Sound, Alaska,
concerning one of the most important
ecological North American
reservations.
In the alone week it generated a black tide
of 6.700 km2, putting in danger the
wild fauna and the fisheries of the
zone. This disaster he is considered to
be one of the biggest in the history of
the black tides.
 2-Melting ice in Greenland
Greenland’s ice sheet is melting very fast.
The sea level may be rising faster than researcher
previously assumed. Earth’s second-largest reservoir of
fresh water is melting at three times the rate at which it
had been melting over the previous five years.
The melting of 57 cubic miles a year from Greenland’s ice
sheet could add 0.6 mm.
Graphic of the evolution of
temperatures
• Evolution of the global average temperature in surface measured up to
thermometers (red line) and in the fall troposphere (between(among) 0
and 3.000 meters) measured by satellites (blue line). There are
represented the differences of the monthly temperatures with regard to
the monthly averages of the period of twenty years 1979-1998 (only
measurements exist satellites from 1979).
• A great similarity is observed between(among) both graphs. The most
notable thing is the thermal decrease happened after the eruption of the
volcano Pinatubo, in June, 1991, (minimum in August, 1992) and the
ascent of the global average temperature during The Child of 1997-98
(maximum in April, 1998).
Ice shelves melting
Ice moves back
 5-List of terminology
-spill -melting

-reef -increase

-blow-out -average

-ice sheet -cubic

-toxic dumping -add

-super tanker -kerosene

-Natural disasters -Temperature

-ice melting -Global warming

BY:

Oriol
&
Ruben