1. Four out of Five of the world’s beaches are eroding away! The culprit? Global Warming!
2. The world’s richest countries, with 20 per cent of the global population, use about 80 percent of the world’s resources.
3. In Tibet, the ice records indicate that the last 50 years have been the warmest in 1,000 years.
4. Around half of all carbon dioxide produced by humans, since the industrial revolution, has dissolved into the world’s oceans.
5. Ice/snow cover cools the earth by reflecting sunlight.
6. The famous Indian River, the Ganges is beginning to run dry. Because the glacier from which the river gets its water, is shrinking at the rate of 34 metres per year, twice as fast as two years ago. The glacier could disappear by 2030!
7. A quarter of all the world’s coral reefs have been destroyed in the past 20 years, by the soaring sea temperatures. In the Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific, more than three quarters coral reefs are thought to have died!
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