Tag: science
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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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The Effects of Climate Change
In my last post, I said that the effects of climate change are bad. In this post, I am going to explain what the effects of climate change (both direct and indirect), how climate change causes them, and some of the outcomes of the effect. First, let’s talk about warming temperatures. As mentioned in the…