Tag: environment
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How Climate Change Affects Human Health
Climate change affects human health in many different ways. One obvious one is high heat, since it could lead to heat related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heatstroke. This is especially true for people that are more vulnerable, such as older adults, children, and people with certain medical conditions. This is especially true for…
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Climate Survival III: Flooding
First, let’s talk about what flooding actually is. A flood is essentially where there is so much water somewhere where there usually isn’t water that it is dangerous to be there. One very common example is heavy precipitation. There are a lot of things that determine whether or not it will be heavy precipitation, but…
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How Rising Sea Levels Are Threatening Coastal Communities and Ecosystems
Due to climate change, coastal communities and ecosystems worldwide are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels. Global warming is altering the ocean water due to thermal expansion, melting glaciers, and melting polar ice caps. These all contribute to sea level rise. This process takes time, but many of the coastal areas have already started recording…
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The Impact of Melting Permafrost on Climate Change and Infrastructure
Permafrost, which is the frozen ground in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, is one of the many things that regulates Earth’s climate. It has a lot of carbon dioxide and methane, which are both greenhouse gases (GHGs). Global warming is causing permafrost to thaw at a very rapid pace. This speeds up global warming as…
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The Role of Urban Heat Islands in Climate Change
In this article, we are going to talk about what urban heat islands are and how they contribute to climate change. You might be wondering what an urban heat island (UHI) is. A UHI is the phenomenon where a city is much hotter than nearby rural areas. There are many reasons why these exist. The…
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How Climate Change is Affecting Global Weather Patterns
In this article, we will talk about how climate change is altering the weather patterns around the world. It has already altered the weather patterns in many ways, and there are a lot more to come. As you may have noticed, there have been more frequent and severe extreme weather events (floods, hurricanes, droughts, etc.)…
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Why Deforestation is a Global Threat
Us humans constantly remove forests, usually to make more land available for building houses or some other building. This is not just bad for the things living in the forests, but it is also bad for the planet. In this article, we will explore how deforestation is a global threat. First off, it ends the…
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Adapting to Climate Change
In this post, we will talk about how to adapt to the climate crisis. By adapt, I mean how to overcome the outcomes of climate change and making it so that they don’t stop you from doing things you would do if climate change wasn’t so bad. This will mainly be helpful for those who…
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What will happen as the world gets hotter?
You might be wondering the things that will happen as the earth gets hotter. In this post, we will go over the outcomes of specific temperature increases and their potential effects. 1°C: This isn’t super bad, but also not good. This mainly lead to more severe heatwaves, which lead to things like droughts and desertification.…
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Climate Survival I: Heatwaves
Every Wednesday, I am going to make a tutorial on how to survive an affect of climate change. Today, it is about surviving heatwaves. First off, what is a heatwave? According to the NOAA, it is “a period of unusually hot weather that typically lasts two or more days” and this can be an issue.…