1. The number of Emperor penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula have dropped from 300 breeding pairs to just nine!
2. About 2,000 of Indonesia’s islands could disappear by 2030 due to rising sea levels. Many islands in the Sundarbans in India have already disappeared. According to one study, in the last 30 years, nearly 31 square miles of the Sundarbans have vanished entirely!
3. Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing. The region might have its first completely ice free summer by 2040 or even earlier.
4. Globally, electricity generation is the biggest source of CO2 emissions, amounting to 37 per cent.
5. An average home is responsible for more harmful CO2 emissions than an average car produces every year.
6. The amount of ice in the Arctic at the end of summer 2005 was the smallest seen in 27 years!
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