Environmental Issues & Climate Change

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Environmental issues : Problems with the planet system due to human activities / mistreatment of the planet.

Examples = Climate change & Global Warming, Pollution, Deforestation, Loss of Biodiversity, Natural Resource Depletion, Waste disposal, ozone layer depletion & acid rain.

Global warming

Due to human activities & emmision of greenhouse gases

Leads to rising temp of the ocean. Therefore the melting of polar ice caps, then rising in sea levels & unnatural patterns of precipitation (flash floods, excessive snow, desertification =

the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture)

Pollution

Vehicles exhaust & industry