Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
Deforestation and forest fragmentation are making it harder for species to move in response to climate chnage. Efforts to restore natural flows of freshwater into the Florida Everglades are helping to slow the incursion of mangroves into this important freshwater ecosystem as sea levels rise. Photo: T.R.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”
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Breezometer
JUNE 7, 2022
The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Warmer temperatures will encourage the melting of glaciers, ice fields, summer Arctic sea ice, and permafrost, some of which may be irreversible.
Edouard Stenger
OCTOBER 29, 2018
It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population. We need to do a whole lot more.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 16, 2021
Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheets have caused about a quarter of the rise in the world’s sea levels. It finds more evidence that severe weather events are linked to carbon in the atmosphere and that those weather events are becoming more extreme. Just as human behavior causes atmospheric warming, it can also prevent it.
HumanNature
JANUARY 26, 2024
They are the processes that allow our food to grow, clean the air we breathe, and attempt to keep atmospheric temperatures in check. Deforestation and intensive agriculture are driving erosion and mass desertification (degradation of land into desert-like systems), which puts pressure on soils and limits biological activity 3,4.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.
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