04 St June'2021

BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤We are back with your favourite page: Wizard’s ➤ STUDENT EDITION ➤Principals, teachers and Corner— A complete Not going to be easy at Tokyo students, share their views activity page filled with TODAY’S Olympics: PV FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2021 Newspaper in on environment Education DIY, quiz, puzzles, riddles, Sindhu EDITION PAGE 2 and much more!!! PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 WORLD ENVIRONMENT Why is the Arctic warming faster DAY SPECIAL than other parts of the world? -PLAINED We do not inherit X the earth from our The Arctic region has ancestors, we borrow WHATwarmed by EFFECTS OF ARCTIC WARMING it from our children. about 2 degree Celsius— twice as fast Native American Proverb in recent times. This warming differ- One of the most significant ential between the poles and the trop- effects of Arctic amplification ics is known as Arctic (or polar) ampli- 1 is the weakening of west-to- ith children com- fication. east jet streams in the northern ing to the fore- hemisphere. As the Arctic warms at front of environ- It occurs: a faster rate than the tropics, this Whenever increase in the results in a weaker atmospheric W ment activism WHYthere is any atmospheric con- pressure gradient and hence lower and debate, this WORLD ENVIRON- change in the net radiation balance of centrations of wind speeds MENT DAY (June 5), we have a theEarth, it produces a larger change greenhouse gases SPECIAL EDITION for you that is all in temperature near the poles than The exception is the The links between Arctic green – in spirit at least. You get the global average. It is typically Antarctic peninsula, amplification, slowing (or measured as the ratio of polar warm- plenty of greenspiration from stu- which juts out further north into 2 meandering) jet streams, tive ice contributes somewhere dents doing their bit, books, ing to tropical warming. blocking highs and extreme weather between 30-50% of the Earth's the Southern Ocean, and has movies and documentaries, trivia, been warming faster than any events in the mid to high latitudes global heating. This rapid loss of ice is climate of the northern hemisphere is con- eco warriors, reasons to be hope- other terrestrial environment in affects the polar jet stream, a con- change Polar amplification is much troversial. One view is that the link ful, and how you too can make a the southern hemisphere during centrated pathway of air in the driving stronger in the Arctic than in is strong and the major driver upper atmosphere, which drives the difference. Get ready to go green. HOW the latter half of the 20th cen- Arctic amplification? This amplifica- Antarctica. This difference is behind the recent severe summer weather patterns across the north- tury tion is primarily caused by melting ice because the Arctic is an ocean heat waves and winter cold waves. ern hemisphere — a process that is increasing in the Satellite data also show that I TOO AM AN ECO covered by sea ice, while But more recent research questions WARRIOR Arctic at a rate of 13% per decade. Antarctica is an elevated conti- between 2002 and 2020, the validity of these links for the The weakened jet stream Students tell you their little green Ice is more reflective and less nent covered in more permanent Antarctica lost an average of mid latitudes meanders and brings the absorbent of sunlight than land or the 149 billion metric tons of ice per deeds that can make a big ice and snow 4 polar vortex further south, difference surface of an ocean. When ice melts, it In fact, the Antarctic conti- year, partly because the oceans The Arctic is warming much which results in extreme weather reveals the darker areas of land or nent has not warmed in the past around the continent are < faster than the rest of the events in North America, Europe sea, and this results in increased HOLD ON TO HOPE seven decades, despite a steady warming 3 planet and the loss of reflec- and Asia sunlight absorption and warming. Even as the news cycle doesn’t bode well for Mother Earth, we tell you news that gives you reason to be positive HERE COME THE Greta Thunberg aims NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Captures Earth- PLANETEERS Famous eco warriors – past and like Clouds Shining on the Red Planet present. Read up to get inspired TO CHANGE HOW ASA’s Mars Curiosity HOW CAN I HELP rover has captured shin- In late January this year, the team Online campaigns, petitions, initia- Ning clouds on Mars, started documenting these “early" tives, channels to follow that can FOOD IS PRODUCED help you do your bit for the world, which arrived earlier and formed 1 clouds. The images show wispy puffs wedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has now set her sights higher than expected. The atmos- filled with ice crystals that scattered light from even while sitting at home on changing how the world produces and phere on Mars is thin, dry, and the setting sun, some of them shimmering consumes food in order to counter- with colour MY GREEN READS A cloudy days are rare. The clouds act a trio of threats: carbon emis- The rover’s Mast Camera, or Mastcam You recco, we read. Share your S focus on agricul- are typically found at the planet’s sions, disease outbreaks and animal suf- green reads with us... ture and linking the cli- equator in the coldest time of snapped colour images and the irides- fering. In a video posted on Twitter, Also want to green your reading mate crisis to health pan- year, when Mars is the farthest 2cent, or “mother of pearl" clouds on Thunberg said the environmental impact March 5, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day routine, we tell you how... demics is a new angle for from the sun in its oval- Curiosity has imaged are at a higher altitude, of farming as well as disease outbreaks Further, the Curiosity team also dis- Green sports personalities, inspiring Thunberg, who has typically shaped orbit. But the sci- where it’s very cold, indicating that they are such as Covid-19, believed to have orig- covered that the early-arrival clouds celebs, lots of trivia and MORE focused her ire on policy- entists noticed clouds likely made of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice inated from animals, would be reduced makers and carbon emis- 3are actually at higher altitudes than is forming over Curiosity Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, by changing how food was produced. "Our typical. Most Martian clouds hover no more GET READY TO sions from fossil rover earlier than expect- was designed to assess whether Mars relationship with nature is broken. But rela- than about 60 kilometres in the sky, and fuels ever had an environment able to support GO GREEN tionships can change," Thunberg said in the ed, one full Martian year 4 are composed of water ice. But the clouds small life forms called microbes video. The spillover of diseases from animals to ago — two Earth years. SPACE humans was caused by farming methods, she said, adding that a move to a plant-based diet could save up to 8 billion tons of CO2 each year. ovid-19 Pandemic situation has pushed us to rethink our respon- The World Health Organisation chicken, hoping to break into an Oscars delayed, as sibilities towards the environment and our well-being with an has said that the coronavirus was unproven segment of the alterna- C urgency. As the world celebrates World Environment Day 2021 probably transmitted from bats to tive meat market, which Barclays pandemic rules continue with the mantra, 'Reimagine, Recreate and Restore,' we invite you to humans through another animal, estimates could be worth $140 click here and bring a change with Toistudent.com while scientists say 60% of the billion by 2029 he Oscars have been postponed for a second consecutive year, and the relaxed eligibility rules allowing films to skip infectious human diseases that The Global Center on ReImagine ReCreate emerged between 1990 and Tmovie theatres will be kept in place due to the pandemic, Adaptation, which the Academy said. After the ratings nosedived for this year's 'Reimagine 2030 with The Use Of Recreating from waste has been a 2004 came from animals works to accelerate cli- unusual pandemic-affected Oscars, which were held at a Los Clean Energy'. Write, Paint or big theme during the pandemic. Tell mate resilience said, cli- Meanwhile, the demand for Angeles train station, the postponement avoids potentially-costly Make a video. Log onto the Your us how have you been reusing from mate change could alternatives to regular clashes with the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics. Corner and Hall Of Fame section the waste— whether it's meat is surging depress global food of the website and send in your making plant pots from plastic worldwide due to production by up The 94th Academy Awards will now entries bottles or compost for concerns about to 30%, while ris- take place on March 27, 2022, exactly your terrace garden health, animal wel- ing seas and more a month later than originally planned, ReStore fare and the envi- intense storms and are set to return to their tradi- Take the reigns in your hand and restore ronment could force tional venue at Hollywood's Dolby SEND hundreds of mil- the ecosystem of your choice. More than two Theatre imagine, IN YOUR ENTRIES lions of people in PICK ONE FROM dozen firms are The Academy's decision to delay BY JUNE 4 AT coastal cities out create, Forests Rivers and lakes testing lab-grown could cause other major Hollywood Oceans and coasts Towns and [email protected] AND of their homes fish, beef and award ceremonies to follow suit in a store cities Mountains [email protected] domino effect Entertainment RE Share your ideas on how would you WITH YOUR NAME, CLASS, want to restore the balance AND SCHOOL It’s not just a place where you get to learn Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

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