While their mothers hunt for food, walrus pups rest on sea ice.Now as the ice melts, walrus pups are being stranded!
Grass has started to grow in Antartica in areas that were covered by ice sheets and glaciers previously.Warmer temperatures are allowing grass to survive through winter for the first time!
In the Swiss Alps, a rock twice as big as the Empire States Building collapsed onto the canyon floor, nearly 700 feets below due to the melting glaciers.
In 2002, a chunk of ice in Antartica, larger than the state of Rhode Island, weakened by warm winds, collapsed into the sea.
Upto 72 percent of bird species in Australia and more than a third in Europe could go extinct due to global warming!
Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing.The region might have its first completely ice free summer by 2040 or even earlier.
The amount of ice in the Arctic at the end of summer 2005 was the smallest seen in 27 years.
An average home is responsible for more harmful Carbondioxide emissions than an average car produces every year.
Globally, electricity generation is the biggest source of Carbondioxide emissions, amounting to 37 percent.
The number of emperor penguins in the Antartic Peninsula have dropped from 300 breeding pairs to just nine!
About 2000 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.
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