Planet in Peril-
1. Greenland is Melting/Discovering Islands- It is 8 degrees hotter than it has been in 10 years because of global warning caused by.As C02 has sky rocketed so has the temp, the warm air.When Ice melts it absorbs more meat and melts more ice melting ice is going to have the impact of rising water at least 3 feet taller, this is bad because of the coastal areas of people. Areas that are very poor are going to have a really bad time with water rising. Maulone- Water lifts ice and causes it to break up. Why are new islands forming in Greenland? Because it is retreating because all the snow and ice is melting.
2. Polar Bears at Risk- Some of the babies are drowning while trying to swim because the water on the ice sheets are getting wider and they can't swim that long so they drowned. If the sea ice keeps melting then in 50 years we probably wont have anymore polar bears or we will be 2/3s short. They are now on the endangers species list, they are the first ones to be put on it because of the future number. They are the only ones put on there be because of global warming. Polar bears are smaller now because there are less things to eat, if polar bears are healthy then everyone is going to be healthy but if they aren't healthy than no one will be healthy. When food runs short they attack each other. The ice is melting a lost faster than they thought it would, we are now on a melting point of which they didn't think we would get to until 2015....
3. The Carterets are Sinking- Thermal Expansion- When water heats up it expands and rises.10s of millions of people will have to move.part of the rise is due to melting ice. Water is knocking down trees. The coral reef looks like it is dying which isn't a good thing because the reef keeps the islands safe from storms. The reef is turning gray with no marine life. The reef is dying so less protection from storms and less fish to eat. It looks like the reef is bleaching there is still some alive coral but it is also slowly dying. Global warming may have something do to with it, but it mostly has to do with the reef dying. It also may have a little something to do with the volcano that the island is on. .
4. Lake Chad is Disappearing
5. Global Warming-Crisis or Hype
6. The Amazon's Protection Force
7. Killing Sister Dorathy Stang
8. Journey to the Kraho Indians
9. Environmental Racism
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