The Environment and Climate Change
Climate change affects the environment in many different ways, including rising temperatures, sea level rise, drought, flooding, and more.
What Is Climate Change? - the United Nations
Climate scientists have showed that humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years. Human activities like the ones mentioned ...
Climate change and environment | UNICEF
A liveable planet for every child.
Impacts of Climate Change | US EPA
Climate change can also impact human health by worsening air and water quality, increasing the spread of certain diseases, and altering the frequency or ...
Effects of Climate Change - Impacts and Examples - NRDC
Climate change shifts precipitation patterns, causing unpredictable floods and longer-lasting droughts. More frequent and severe hurricanes can ...
The Effects of Climate Change - NASA Science
Climate change has caused increased heat, drought, and insect outbreaks. In turn, these changes have made wildfires more numerous and severe. The warming ...
Climate and Environment - United States Department of State
Office of Global Change (EGC): The Office of Global Change leads on U.S. international climate change policy and represents the United States in climate ...
Effects of Climate Change | Threats | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
It alters sand temperatures, which then affects the sex of hatchlings. Sea levels are rising and oceans are becoming warmer. Longer, more intense droughts ...
Causes and Effects of Climate Change | United Nations
As greenhouse gas emissions blanket the Earth, they trap the sun's heat. This leads to global warming and climate change. The world is now warming faster than ...
Climate Change | EESI - Environmental and Energy Study Institute
Climate change is causing vast shifts in ecosystems and weather patterns, including stronger hurricanes, more intense wildfires, longer droughts, and an ice- ...
Consequences of climate change - European Commission
The impacts of climate change, such as increasing sea surface temperatures, ocean acidification and shifts in currents and wind patterns will significantly ...
What is climate change? A really simple guide - BBC News
What is climate change? ... Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. Between 2014 and ...
Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)
Climate change presents a fundamental threat to human health. It affects the physical environment as well as all aspects of both natural and human systems.
Climate Crisis - United States Department of State
If the international community fails to address climate change today, the costs of our inaction will be visible in our lifetimes and passed down to future ...
Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA
Many of these observed climate changes are linked to rising levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, caused by human activities. EPA's ...
Environmental & Climate Justice - NAACP
Environmental injustice, including the proliferation of climate change, systematically impacts communities of color and low-income communities in the US and ...
Climate and Environment - The New York Times
Earth's warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.
Causes of climate change - European Commission
This adds enormous amounts of greenhouse gases to those naturally occurring in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and global warming. Global ...
The Climate Crisis – A Race We Can Win - the United Nations
Global warming impacts everyone's food and water security. Climate change is a direct cause of soil degradation, which limits the amount of carbon the earth is ...
Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)
The direct damage costs to health are estimated to be between US$ 2–4 billion per year by 2030. Areas with weak health infrastructure – mostly in developing ...