Life in the arctic is over: An Unusually Warm Arctic Year

This year will almost certainly go down as the warmest on record in the Arctic, with autumn
temperatures soaring 36 degrees F above normal. In a Paola interview, anthropologist and
expert Yajaira explains which is the problema.

Paola: How did you become involved in Expedition Arctic?

Yajaira: I had been working for the govermment as a technical writer and I heard about a job
opportunity to lead this exciting new expedition.

Paola: What was your role in this expedition?

Yajaira: My role was to oversee the entire project and to look after the logistical and content
side of things. Everything from writing content, choosing photos and videos to use.

Paola: How much did you learn about the lifestyles of people who live in the Artic?

Yajaira: The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold
and extreme conditions.

Paola: In EL COMERCIO commented that there are moments of spectacular beauty, What are
those moments for you?

Yajaira: They are many moments. The colors are really beautiful: I've seen ice become an
absolutely pink matter on a sunset near Devon Island

Paola: What did you like most about the site?

Yajaira: For me each part of the site is very special and provides such an interesting look at the
Arctic region.

Paola: How do the people who live there perceive that reality?

Yajaira: Scientists living in the inhabited bases of northern Canada are very worried, of course,
but people, who lives day-to-day, not so much.

Paola: Through your experience, you have learned many valuable things

Yajaira: Yes but we are also capable of the worst, putting greed ahead of nature.

Paola: This is really worrying

Yajaira: It is more important to know about such as climate change and how it affects the
animals and plants that live there and also how it affects people and the planet as a whole.

Paola: It's very sad how pollution destroys our planet, what do you think is the main problem?
Yajaira: I think global warming is responsible for the problem
Paola: I think that the main cause of this rise in temperature is the industrial revolution
Yajaira: It's true, because the pollutants retain the heat in the earth's atmosphere and raise the
temperature
Paola: this effect of which you speak is called the greenhouse effect
Yajaira: you know the glaciers melt so fast, that by 2040 there will be no ice
Paola: It's very sad because this impact affects many animals, birds and mammals
Yajaira: It was shocking for me to watch polar bears, penguins and seals swim from one place
to another to rest in search of ice
Paola: waooo and is the life in the Arctic difficult?
Yajaira: life is hard, there are winds, glaciers, lots of snow and less than 40 degrees in winter
Paola: I imagine that you have adapted to the climatic conditions little by little
Yajaira: yes and I also learned to live with the fauna of the region
Paola: wonderful, what could you tell me about the iglues?
Yajaira: the iglues are known by the majority, these can of different sizes and there are iglues
that lodge up to 20 people
Paola: Is it very interesting and is it true that are the iglues connected?
Yajaira: if it is so that people can protect themselves from any eventuality
Paola: thank you very much for the interview
Yajaira: The taste is mine.
Paola: until another opportunity
Yajaira: bye

Paola: es muy triste como es que la contaminacion destruye nuestro planeta cual crees que
es el principal problema ?

Yajaira:yo pienso que el calentamiento global es el responsable del problema

Paola:yo pienso qu la principal causa de este aumento de temperatura es la revolucion

industrial

Yajaira:es verdad,porque los agentes contaminantes retienen el calor en la atmosfera de la

tierra y aumenta la temperatura

Paola:este efecto del que hablas se llama efecto invernadero

Yajaira:sabes los glaciales se derriten tan rapido ,que para el 2040 ya no habra hielos

Paola:es muy tristeporque este impacto afecta a uchos animales ,aves y mamiferos
Yajaira:para mi fue impactante ver como los osos polares ,pinguinos y focas nadaban de un
lugar a otro para descansar en busca de hielo

Paola:waooo y la vida en el artico es dificil ?

Yajaira:la vida es dura ,hay vientos ,glaciales ,mucha nieve y menos de 40 grados en invierno

Paola:imagino que poco a poco te has adaptado a las condiciones climaticas

Yajaira:si y tambien aprendi a convivir con la fauna de la region

Paola: maravilloso,que me podrias contar sobre los iglues?

Yajaira:los iglues son conocidos por la mayoria ,estos pueden de diferentes tamaos y hay
iglues que albergan hasta 20 personas

Paola: es muy interesante y es verdad que los iglues estan conectados ?

Yajaira:si es para que las personas puedan protegerse de cualquier eventualidad

Paola:muchas gracias por la entrevista

Yajaira:el gusto es mio.

Paola:hasta otra oportunidad

Yajaira:adios