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POLAR AND TUNDRA REGIONS -----ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
POLAR AND TUNDRA Environmental Issues
The Arctic region has many minerals that are important to people like: iron, gold and oil.
People live and work in the Arctic to remove these valuable minerals
and sell them but this has its advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages
Disadvantages
The oil and gas bring money to the region.
Jobs are provided for local people and migrant workers from different countries.
It provides power for the local people.
Forests which have taken a long time to grow are destroyed by the building of roads and pipelines.
More pollution is released into the atmosphere, increasing the acidity of rain. Acid rain can damage soils and kill trees.
There is a danger of a big oil spill or gas explosion
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