Rising temperature and increasing acid levels in the oceans are gradually damaging the Australian coral reef, an essential habitat for a large number of marine species.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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To make cultivation possible in desert areas, precious water reserves are exploited.
Mojave Desert, USA
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Melting of frozen basins and watercourses close to inhabited areas can pose hazards to surrounding cities and infrastructures.
Dnieper River (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Black Sea)
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The speed at which glaciers move and melt has increased over the last 30 years.
Petermann Glacier, Greenland
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The more remote and rich forests are, the more illegal deforestation activities increases.
Colniza, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Forced diversion of waterways, even hotter climates, as well as the exploitation activities in agriculture and fishing, make some areas of the world increasingly dry and arid.
Aral Sea, Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan
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The Great Blue Hole provides evidence of the correlation between land, cultural transformation and climate change over the course of geological eras.
Great Blue Hole, Belize
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Even in the most remote desert regions, it is possible to mine for minerals and create a proliferation of extraction wells, in order to obtain the useful yield from the territory.
Atacama Desert, Chile
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In recent years, climate change has given rise to a progressive increase in extreme weather phenomena, such as floods, thunderstorms and subsequent landslides.
Flood, Croatia
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The detachment of portions of ice at the poles of various sizes is a phenomenon that has been observed for a long time. In recent years this has increased, most probably due to global warming.
Iceberg A-68, Larsen C, Antarctic
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Forest fire cause carbon emissions, which, added to the man-made emissions, is creating a negative loop. In fact, forests play a very important role in absorbing CO2.
Cujubim, Brazil
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Global warming is making the vegetation drier, facilitating the spread of wildfires that, in turn, can be started maliciously, with the aim of exploiting the territory.
Volcano Vesuvius, Italy
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