environmental issues

Climate Change - the problems

Last edited 14 November 2006 at 12:57pm

A melt lakes on the Greenland ice sheet

The world is warming up. As we burn up the planet’s coal, oil and gas reserves, and cut down its remaining forests, greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere. The delicate balance of atmospheric gases that sustains life is thickening, trapping more and more heat and irreversibly changing our world.

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