Category: Human Impact
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Ice Age Is Coming?! A Climate Tipping Point Beneath the Atlantic
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An Ice Age is a period when Earth’s temperatures are significantly lower. During such times, large parts of the planet are covered by extensive ice sheets and glaciers. The most recent Ice Age lasted from about 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago. It was primarily triggered by shifts…
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Melting Glaciers Are Uncovering a World of Ancient Microbes
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As global temperatures continues to rise, the process of melting glaciers across the world is taking place at an unprecedented rate. These massive reservoirs of ice, which have existed for thousands of years, are now shrinking even more rapidly than ever before. As snow, ice, and rock accumulate over thousands…
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Drying Rivers, Dying Lifelines: The Global Water Crisis
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Earth’s 71% surface is capped by water which is primarily covered by oceans that is salt water. While freshwater reserves are only about 3% that too majorly locked in the form of glaciers. Thus available freshwater has limited stock, our changing climatic conditions are responsible drying rivers. Firstly, lets understand…