#point barrow

Hand ball

Reindeer and walrus hide, polar bear hair

Manufacture unknown, Point Barrow, Alaska, late 19th to early 20th century

Jack Wolfskin Point Barrow Winter-Hardshell Jacke

Sehr gute Winterjacke die sehr Warm hält !!

Sie ist Wind und Wasserdicht sowie atmungsaktiv Sie ist in 3 Farben erhältlich.

Die Temperaturen sind seit heute bei uns mächtig nach unten geklettert. Im Jack Wolfskin Sale gibt es gerade die Jack Wolfskin Point Barrow Winter-Hardshell Jacke für 179,10€ inkl. Versand. Der Preis reduziert sich…

A polar bear cub stands on its hind legs while the mother stays nearby in a frozen area of the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska, north of Point Barrow - the northernmost point of the United States. credit: Kelley Elliott, Hidden Ocean 2005 Expedition, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration

The Sierra Club has issued an alert about possible seismic blasting, a step before oil drilling that identifies oil pockets, that could take place in the Arctic Refuge as early as December of this year. This is a day we feared might come once it was announced by the US government earlier this year that the Refuge could be opened to drilling. The Sierra Club stated that, "90,000-lb “thumper trucks” would send shock waves deep into the ground, carving tracks into the tundra and disturbing polar bear dens." 

Our latest post contains more information on the threat that oil drilling poses to polar bears and to North Atlantic and North Pacific right whales and what we can do to help stop it: