The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a dire warning about the state of pollution, global warming and its effects on the planet. They have given humanity just 12 years to make a real effort in reducing carbon emissions and becoming more environmentally-friendly. Any later, and Earth could undergo irreversible changes […]
What you may not know about climate change
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, […]