Global Warming Effects Map - Effects of Global Warming
ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species
Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. As a small conservation charity, Wildscreen eventually reached the point where it could no longer financially sustain the ongoing costs of keeping Arkive free and online or invest in its much needed development. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.
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
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. 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 Taken by New England Aquarium Educator Jessica Lavash in Padre Island, Texas. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels and other trends are having an effect on the world’s sea turtles. Kiwi, a Kemp's ridley sea turtle,
Iqbal Masih - Page 2
Iqbal began speaking at BLLF meetings and then to international activists and journalists. He spoke about his own experiences as a bonded-child laborer. He was not intimidated by crowds and spoke with such conviction that many took notice of him. Iqbal's six years as a bonded child had affected him physically as well as mentally. In many ways, Iqbal was made into an adult when he was sent to work as a carpet weaver. Iqbal's growing popularity and influence caused him to receive numerous death threats. On Sunday, April 16, 1995, Iqbal spent the day visiting his family for Easter. How and why Iqbal was killed remains a mystery.
Expedition | A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change
Get your passport ready! It's time to go on a trip around to world to explore the effects of climate change. Each flag on the map below represents a stop on your journey, and you can visit them in any order you like. Accessible version for screen reader user Before you begin... (<a href="expedition-popup-alt.html">Alternative version</a>) <a href="expeditions-508.html">Accessible version of all the expeditions</a> Map Data Imagery ©2015 NASA Satellite Map Select any flag on the map to start your journey! At the end of each stop, you'll get a passport stamp and a code. How Does this Expedition Work? At each stop on your journey, you'll see a 5– to 10–minute video. Depending on your Internet connection speed, the video might pause occasionally to allow the rest of the file to download. Each video will pause a few times to ask you a question. At the end of each video, you'll receive a passport stamp and a code: Enter your codes on the tracking sheet.
Iqbal Masih, Pakistani Martyr - Biography
Historical Importance: Iqbal Masih was a young Pakistani boy who was forced into bonded labor at age four. After being freed at age ten, Iqbal became an activist against bonded child labor. He became a martyr for his cause when he was murdered at age 12. Dates: 1982 -- April 16, 1995 Overview of Iqbal Masih: Iqbal Masih was born in Muridke, a small, rural village outside of Lahore in Pakistan. Iqbal, too young to understand his family's problems, spent his time playing in the fields near his two-room house. In 1986, Iqbal's older brother was to be married and the family needed money to pay for a celebration. To pay for the wedding, Iqbal's family borrowed 600 rupees (about $12) from a man who owned a carpet-weaving business. This system of peshgi (loans) is inherently inequitable; the employer has all the power. In addition to these costs, the loan grew ever larger because the employer added interest. The conditions in which Iqbal worked were horrendous.
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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. 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.
