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Important Wetland Habitats From Around The World

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:09:34 +0000

The locations of wetlands can vary widely from marshes and ponds, to edges of lakes and oceans, to low lying areas that flood often. In today’s world wetlands, like many other natural ecosystems, are threatened by human activity, global warming, and the changes both are bringing with them.

These natural environments play a number of important roles, acting as water purifiers, water storage, and important ecological support to plants and animals, to name a few of their functions.

Here is a list will of the world’s 10 most important wetlands, according to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance.

10. Chott Melrhir
9. Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe
8. Lake Bardawil
7. Mana Pools
6. Tanguar Haor
5. Mai Po Marshes
4. Lake Urmia
3. Vanhankaupunginselkä
2. Ammersee
1. Kandalaksha Gulf

Read More https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/important-wetland-habitats-from-around-the-world.html

Coffee’s Future Is at Risk as the Climate Changes

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:12:54 +0000

Coffee is the world’s most widely consumed beverage; it is relished by individuals from all races, backgrounds, and social classes. Over 1 billion individuals in the world drink over 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day. Finland is the world’s largest coffee consumer; 12kg of coffee is consumed by an average Finn yearly while Brazil produces and exports millions of tons of coffee annually making it the world’s largest producer by volume.

But what would happen if you could no longer afford a cup of Joe or if it was no longer available?

Coffee is, in many ways, a poster child of an industry facing a future crisis. Most coffee is grown from two different species — arabica and robusta — but there are 122 other wild species. Coffee’s already limited range of tropical growing region will likely dwindle, and 60% of wild coffee species face extinction. Millions of hectares of crops risk being lost in the space of a few decades and 25 million coffee growers risk losing their means of subsistence.

In many other types of crops, there are seed companies that drive breeding and care about conserving genetic diversity, but that doesn’t exist in the coffee industry. There is a disconnect between the numerous coffee roasters and the breeders who could turn crop diversity into new varieties able to, for example, withstand a drought or resist the latest pest outbreak.

Global Warming vs Climate Change Why the Words Still Matter

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:32:45 +0000

Global warming is a topic of contention for many people. This winter has skeptics high on their soap boxes spouting phrases such as “I thought this was global warming, why is the temperature outside negative 45°?” And when researchers studying global warming get stuck in Antarctic ice, skeptics are given a little more fuel for their fire.

Global warming refers to surface temperature increases, while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas amounts will affect. The Earth’s temperature has risen about 2°, while this may not seem significant it is enough to contribute in climate changes such as the number or warm and cold days, the level of the sea, widespread decreases in snow and ice, as well as some extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, tornados, droughts and flooding.

When NASA scientist James E. Hansen testified to Congress about climate he used the term “global warming” and the popularity of the term exploded. Unfortunately these phrases are casually used interchangeably although they are not the same. But would skeptics listen if it wasn’t called Global Warming? What if it was called solely climate change?

Well, it depends. There is a lot of ignorance to global warming because of the name, those people could possibly be persuaded to the facts of global warming if the “climate change” became the buzz, but there are many skeptics with valid points. The informed skeptics are quite knowledgeable and a name change won’t influence them.