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The glaciers are melting, what's next?

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Glaciers are landmarks that historically contain rich amounts of data through layers of ice depicting the weather conditions back in the past and much more. With climate change increasing, glaciers are starting to melt into the ocean. This is bad, here's why; consequently, with these glaciers melting, this leads to ocean levels to rise. Animals living on those glaciers will need to find new homes and weather systems around the world will become unreliable and change. (Why).                                                                                            (Boyd) According to World Wildlife , “Since the early 1900s, many glaciers around the world have been rapidly melting. Human activities are at the root of this phenomenon. Specifically, since the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions have raised temperatures, even higher in the poles, and as a result, glaciers are rapidly melting, calving off into the sea and retreating on land.” Scientis

The world is burning, what are we doing about it?

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  The Australian wildfires have been denounced as one of the worst series of wildfires in modern history. They say “ more than 46 million acres were scorched. An estimate in January said 1.25 billion animals were affected.” (Givetash). As I read more deeply into the matter, I’ve realized how easy it is for these fires to come back if precautions aren’t taken properly. According to the Worldwildlife , these destructive fires killed and displaced more than 3 billion animals: including 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, 51 million frogs.                                                                   (Douglas Thron) Scientists around the world predict that if nothing is done to get ahead of these wildfires, they will become more frequent in the foreseeable future. Not only will they be more frequent, but also more devastating. This is all because of the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to ha