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A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change. A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change. Polar Bears and Climate Change. Floods. Droughts. Heat waves. Massive storms. Climate change is not just about polar bears, the iconic symbol of a melting Arctic. It affects the entire planet. In fact, if our chief scientist, Dr. "Events like these will continue to increase in number and severity as the world continues to warm. " What's causing climate change?
What's causing climate change? Greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere act like a blanket that keeps the earth warm. Other factors such as deforestation have added to the problem. Do scientists agree about climate change? The laws of physics dictate that the world will grow warmer and warmer as greenhouse gas concentrations rise. Are scientists still debating climate change? The important point to remember is that natural fluctuations in the climate system will continue with global warming, but the baseline will climb higher and higher. And once we cross those thresholds, it will be bad news not only for polar bears—but countless other species, including humans. Climate change: the effects on ocean animals. The “poster child” for global warming is the polar bear. But many other animals are already feeling the effects of global climate change on the oceans.
Find out about the changing climate's impact on the earth’s population of sea turtles, right whales, penguins, seals, lobsters, and cod. The Arctic’s top predator, the polar bear, is affected both by the reduction in sea ice and by reduced stocks of its primary food, the ringed seal. Polar bears use sea ice as a platform for hunting their prey and for resting. They catch adult seals when they come up through the holes in the sea ice and search out the snow-covered ice caves of seal pups. But sea ice is decreasing throughout their Arctic range due to climate change. As sea ice becomes thinner and multi-year ice disappears, a greater proportion of females make their dens on land, expending more energy to get there.
Polar bears are often described as completely dependent on ice for their survival. In 2008, the U.S. Back to top. Imgres 1. Transgender Teen Wins A Long Battle For A Basic Human Right. Why Iʼm a Feminist | Samantha Goodyear. As a high school student, I encounter sexism all too often. In the past few months, several incidents have occurred that have caused me to reflect on the way gender inequality is still so prominent in our culture, especially for me now, as a high school student. It may be hard to grasp that in the year 2014, in a country like Canada where I live, I am still surrounded by sexism, but this is the reality. It often seems like I can't sit through a class without having to speak up in defense of my gender at some point. This doesn't seem fair to me. Now, I consider myself a feminist, and proudly wear that label. A couple of weeks ago, a teacher told our class that men are stronger leaders than women. Standing up for gender equality is so important to me because when they get to high school, I want my little brothers to be able to take whatever courses they want and dress however way they want without pressure or judgment.
Gender roles are only part of the problem, though. Girl, 12, Takes on Sports Catalog for Gender Equality. <br/><a href=" News Videos</a> | <a href=" News Videos</a> Copy A 12-year-old girl from Arizona is on a mission to get a major brand to realize that girls like sports, too. A letter McKenna Peterson of Arizona wrote to DICK's Sporting Goods, complaining about how there weren't any girls in a recent basketball catalog, went viral after her father posted it on Twitter this week. "She's the one who goes out and gets the mail and she started looking at it and as I was reading the mail, she said something about how there were no girls in [the catalog]," her dad, Chris Peterson told ABC News today. Courtesy of Chris Peterson PHOTO: McKenna Peterson wrote a letter to Dick’s Sporting Goods to complain about the lack of girls in a catalog.
"I looked at it and realized the same thing," said Peterson, a sports photographer in the Phoenix area. Teen: Dick's Sporting Goods magazine lacks gender equality. The Reaction To #LikeAGirl Is Exactly Why It's So Important. Out of all the controversial ads that aired during the Super Bowl, the one that may have spurred the most vocal backlash was the one that promoted gender equality. The original "Like A Girl" spot, which first aired in June 2014, featured people being asked to throw, run and fight "like a girl. " Instead of simply doing these actions, each person weakly reenacted them, by accidentally dropping the ball or slapping instead of punching. But when the same questions were asked of young girls, they threw, ran and fought aggressively -- like anyone would. The implication: To do something "like a girl" is to do it badly, but that negative connotation is something that is only learned over time.
Therefore, it's something we can change. The campaign received a lot of positive attention when it originally aired, but it wasn't until Sunday's shortened Super Bowl ad, which approximately 115 million people watched, that the Internet's resident haters really found their voices. A Bullet Can't Kill a Dream - Who Was Iqbal? Who Was Iqbal Masih? (click on pictures to see full size jpg) Iqbal Masih was four years old when his father sold him into slavery. He was forced to work more than twelve hours a day. He was constantly beaten, verbally abused, and chained to his loom by the carpet factory owner. There are an estimated 20 million bonded laborers in Pakistan today; at least 7.5 million of these bonded laborers are children.
In 1992 Iqbal's life changed dramatically. Iqbal was an articulate, confident, and powerful speaker and an uncompromising critic of child servitude. Global Warming and the American Pika. The tiny pika, a cousin of the rabbit that lives on mountain peaks in the western United States, is running out of options. In fact, they have already disappeared from over one-third of their previously known habitat in Oregon and Nevada.
Now, the situation is so dire that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering the pika for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Because these small mammals have adapted to cold alpine conditions, pikas are intolerant of high temperatures and can die from overheating when exposed for just a few hours. Support National Wildlife Federation's work to protect pikas and other wildlife struggling to survive climate change, habitat loss and other threats >> Adapted to Cold Weather Pikas, which once lived across North America, have been retreating upslope over the past 12,000 years.
Why is the Pika in Trouble? Once they move upslope to reach the top and find the temperatures still too warm, the pika has no place else to go. Nowhere to Go. Effects. Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves.
Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time. Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which includes more than 1,300 scientists from the United States and other countries, forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. Future effects Temperatures will continue to rise. Global Warming Effects Map - Effects of Global Warming.
Climate Change Research. Climate Change Research. Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Was Drawn to Politics by Dad. Correction Appended: Oct. 17, 2012 Malala Yousafzai is only 14 years old, but she has always come off as preternaturally mature, able — even at 11 — to talk about serious issues like education and terrorism and her native Pakistan’s troubled relations with India. The attempt on her life and the ensuing medical emergency have made her a hero to a greater audience. But in the patriarchal and conservative Muslim world she grew up in, a pioneer like Malala would not have been possible without another hero: her father. The saga “is a story about a father and a daughter, more than a story about a girl,” says Adam Ellick, a journalist and documentary filmmaker who covered the 2009 shutdown of the schools in the Swat Valley because of Taliban threats that led to the displacement of the Yousafzai family and thousands of others.
Ziauddin Yousafzai founded the Khushal School and College that his daughter attends in the city of Mingora. (MORE: How Malala Yousafzai May Affect Pakistan’s Culture Wars) Girl basketball players in Saudi Arabia need sneakers, a net, and courage. JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — In Saudi Arabia, there are many restrictions on what a woman can and cannot do. Now, a group of women and girls in the kingdom are pushing back by playing basketball. Women's basketball is becoming popular in the Middle East's largest country.
Women are using basketball to push for greater rights on and off the courts in Saudi Arabia. "We are an activist team," said Lina Almaeena, who started the first women's basketball team here 11 years ago. In 2006, Jiddah United became the first sports club in Saudi Arabia to include women. The women promoted the sport at a time when the idea of women playing basketball was unthinkable. Not Just A Sport For the players, basketball is not merely a sport. Women are forced to follow strict rules about what they can wear. Nevertheless, Saudi women's basketball is on the rise. "I wouldn't be the person I am today without the sport and the team," she said.
Fun, Friendship, Teamwork Complaining About Track Suits Expensive To Play. New freedoms of Afghan women under threat. KABUL, Afghanistan — Shahgol Shah was just 11 when her family married her to a man she didn't choose. She never went to school, and spent her life raising seven children. Today, Shah, who is 50, still obeys an Afghan custom that forbids women to leave home without a male relative. In public, she wears a burka, the long cloak covering her entire body worn by some Muslims for modesty. Her face is hidden by a shawl. “That’s our tradition,” Shah says. Her 26-year-old daughter, Ghazalan Koofi, lives a life her mother could never have imagined. Koofi demands the respect of her male co-workers.
A Dangerous Time Koofi was a teenager when the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2011. But U.S. combat troops are leaving Afghanistan next year. “We are entering a very dangerous period for women,” says Koofi. Shukriya Matin also became an adult in a world of new freedoms. Matin, 26, was in grade school when her family ran from the Taliban in 1996. She returned to Kabul and earned a high school degree. Malala Yousafzai. Malala Fund Blog - Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Speech. Join Malala in seeing #TheLast at Malala.org Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods, and wasted potential.Let this be the last time that a boy or a girl spends their childhood in a factory.Let this be the last time that a girl is forced into early child marriage.Let this be the last time that an innocent child loses life in war.Let this be the last time that a child remains out of school.Let this end with us.And let us begin this ending…. together…. today….. right here, right now.
Topics: #TheLast Nobel Peace Prize youtube.com I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban (Book) Malala Yousafzai (Award Winner) video. Mo'ne Davis Has a Memoir Coming Next March. NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir when you're still a teenager may seem premature, but not for Mo'ne Davis, the first female pitcher to win a Little League World Series game. "Mo'ne Davis: Remember My Name" will be released next March by HarperCollins Children's Books, the publisher told The Associated Press on Monday. The honor roll student from Philadelphia became a sensation last summer after leading the Taney Dragons to a 4-0 victory over Nashville, when she was just 13. Known for her long braids and uncommon poise, she has since appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, thrown out the first pitch at a major league World Series game and starred in a car commercial directed by Spike Lee. In September, she donated her jersey to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
"When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy," Mo'ne said in a statement issued Monday through HarperCollins. "I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to. Education for Girls. Iqbal Masih. Reading. LMS. Ms. Lyon's ELA Blog. Yesterday we watched some videos from Google and Flocabulary that showed examples of years in review. Below are the lyrics to the Flocabulary rap. They talk about a lot of different things that were in the news this past year.
Read through the lyrics. As you do, think about which events you remember, and which events you want to know more about. When you get to the bottom of the lyrics, take the survey. You will need to be signed in to your school Google account to take it. (yourID#@portlandschools.org) From Flocabulary’s Year in Review 2014: It’s so crazy right now. Yeah, what do we have here? Word, now let’s switch gears, There’s a lot of other headlines from this year.The European Space Agency made history, When it landed on a comet to unlock the Earth’s mysteries. The world of sports is wild, no rodeo, Titles in SF, Seattle and San Antonio.Lebron came home to OHIO,Does Donald Sterling own the Clips? Take the survey: