Climate Change Impacts
Climate change is leaving us with extra space junkNew Scientist | 25 Jun 2010Dead satellites and rocket parts are taking longer to drop out of orbit, thanks to cooling of the upper atmosphere as the air beneath gets warmer. RISING sea levels, vanishing glaciers and earlier blooming of flowers are among the well-documented effects of climate change. An increase in space junk can now be added to that list.The upper layers of the atmosphere have a braking effect on defunct satellites and spent rockets, eventually causing them to drop out of orbit and burn up.
Climate Change Impacts Africa: Climate Change Policy Focus on WomenAllAfrica.com | 25 Jun 2010Although climate change does not pick and chose its victims, some groups are more affected than others. In developing countries, women are often the main water transporters and agricultural producers, one of many examples illustrating the way in which women are more likely to feel the consequences of climate change than men.
Climate Change Impacts | Initiatives Africa: Climate Change Could Affect Our GrowthAllAfrica.com | 21 Jun 2010Climate change is a major threat to sustainable growth and development in Africa, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, hence urgent action is needed. Although Africa is the continent least responsible for climate change, it is particularly vulnerable to the effects, including reduced agricultural production, worsening food security, the increased incidence of both flooding and drought, spreading disease and an increased risk of conflict over scarce land and water resources.
Climate Change and Development | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation Comprehensive look at human impacts on ocean chemistryScienceDaily.com | 18 Jun 2010Numerous studies are documenting the growing effects of climate change, carbon dioxide, pollution and other human-related phenomena on the world's oceans. But most of those have studied single, isolated sources of pollution and other influences. Now, a marine geochemist has published a report that evaluates the total impact of such factors on the ocean and considers what the future might hold.
United States | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Climate change threatens food supply of 60 million people in AsiaScienceDaily.com | 17 Jun 2010Climate change will drastically reduce the discharge of snow and ice meltwater in a region of the Himalayas, threatening the food security of more than 60 million people in Asia in the coming decades, according to new research in Science. The Indus and Brahmaputra basins are expected to be the most adversely affected, while in the Yellow River basin the availability of irrigation water will actually increase.
Climate Change Impacts Where Desertification Meets the Bottom LineClimateBiz | 17 Jun 2010Businesses can invest in local social and environmental projects to halt or reserve desertification, engage with suppliers to reduce degradation, and create products that improve agricultural sustainability and enable restoration of damaged land. Throughout history, every continent has harbored dry landscapes that depend on limited rainfall and are vulnerable to desertification, the process through which vegetation and soil moisture is lost and dry lands become more like deserts.
Climate Change Impacts