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Poles Apart

People surprised that Antartica is nearly twice the size of U.S. Antartica was coined to mean opposite to the Artic. The climate of the two areas is very different. Antartica is the coldest area in the world and 30 degrees colder than the Artic. Mean temperature run below zero in nearly 10,000 feet high. Antartica rise about freezing in the summer, but North Pole rise above freezing. Winter temperature sometimes fall below -100 degrees Fahrenheit at the American South Poles Station. A temperature of -127 degrees Fahrenheit was measured   in August 1960 on south polar plateau. It is the world’s record low temperature. Animals and plants of two regions are very different. Moses, lichens, and algae are found in Antartica. Penguins are not found in Artic. Foxes, bears, reindeer, and lemmings lives in Artic. Ice is great feature of Antartica. More than 4.5 million square miles of ice sheet cover the area. Antartica store 85 percent of the total world supply of ice. The icecap is very thick,...

The Green Revolution

Green Revolution is an approach to agriculture to double the food production. It can make new types of grain and new extensive chemicals and farm machinery. Green Revolution is no longer appear to be successful because expensive of this metod. This method needs expensive chemical, insecticides, and watering system that many farmers cannot buy. Green Revolution has bought social and political conflict because the cost of this new methods. Large landowners can buy land from smaller farmers. Social tension increase this situation. Government need new methods to decrease hungry people and to be less destructive.