Classmate Facts # 106 - Global Warming

1. Warmer temperatures are killing eucalyptus trees, the main food source for Koalas. It is feared that because of this Koalas could become extinct in the next few decades!

2. Lousiana, a state in USA, about the size of Orissa, is losing an acre of its land, to the rising sea levels, every 24 minutes!

3. Between 1961 and 1997, the world's glaciers lost 890 cubic miles of ice.

4. Global Warming means bad news for baseball lovers! Ash tree from which all baseball bats are made, is in the danger of disappearing because of warmer temperatures.

5. As rising ocean temperatures are killing off their food supply, more number of gray whales are being washed up on beaches after starving to death.