Humanity’s impact on the polar ice sheets is slowing Earth’s rotation, posing a challenge for how it matches up with the official timekeeping. Humanity is rapidly waking up to the fact that time is running out to take action to mitigate the effects of climate change. Ironically, climate change itself, primarily caused by the release...
New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) predict a 77% increase in cancer cases globally by 2050. The report points to air pollution as one of the factors driving the expected increase in cancer rates, even though it does not have the same effect on everyone. As a global health watchdog, the WHO rarely has good...
Seventy two percent of cetacean and pinniped stocks managed under US jurisdiction are highly or very highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a study published in PLOS ONE led by Matthew D. Lettrich at NOAA Fisheries, in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America. Climate change could affect the distribution, behavior, and movements of marine mammals via warming...
The action taken by Madagascar’s young people towards problems connected to climate change shows they have a key role to play in the fight against the destruction of planet Earth. Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges facing our world right now. Extreme weather events are demonstrating the growing vulnerability of life on...
Understanding the emotional impacts of climate change. Human activities disrupt the earth’s climate. Climate change has several impacts, such as changes in sea level, rising temperatures, and severe weather. Typically, scientists study the environmental and scientific effects of this change. However, we can’t forget about the emotional side effects. Climate change has an effect on...