Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago, threatening hundreds of millions of people with catastrophe. Rapidly melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to push up sea levels by a metre or more by 2100. Low-lying countries with increasing populations, such as Bangladesh could see large parts of their surface areas vanish.

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One of the harshest landscapes in the United States, it turns out, is becoming fertile ground for green power.

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Dear TSTG pupils,

Lindsay, our Canadian assistant mentionned the cycles climate went through : alternatively Ice Ages and warmer periods, watch this video to get more information on Global Warming !

Barack Obama’s team will have to face a difficult task challenging global warming and climate change. This is mainly due to the fact that a succession of presidents and Congresses had failed to make much progress on the issues. Read more about it here !

Armies are one of the worst polluters. You can read more about this issue in The Guardian, a British quality paper.

The next climate conference will take place in less than a year in Copenhagen. This article from The Independent, a quality Britih daily paper explains why this conference is crucial.

The Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen. Read more about it here !

People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert has said. Read more about this in The Guardian.

Watch on this interactive map the Carbon emissions per country. New figures published confirm that China has overtaken the US as the largest emitter of CO2. This interactive emissions map shows how the rest of the world compares

In this article published in The Independent (a British daily paper), the journalists states that scientists have finally proven (for th first time) that climte change is linked to human activity and not, as sceptics who tend to beleive that climate change is only part of the climate’s natural variability.

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