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How climate change affects the ecosystem?


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Climate change:

  1. Climate change refers to long-term changes in the earth's temperature and weather.
  2. Every day, the temperature of the Earth rises.
  3. Clean glaciers are melting, greenhouse gases are polluting the atmosphere, sea levels are rising, and global warming is on the horizon.
  4. Without control, atmospheric conditions can deteriorate to the point where they are dangerous.

Effects of climate change on the ecosystem:

  1. A significant decline in the population of cold-adapted species.
  2. Coastal flooding and erosion of the shoreline.
  3. Heat-related health problems.
  4. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
  5. Droughts are common.
  6. Precipitation pattern shift.
  7. Storms become more severe.
  8. Crop losses are astronomical.
  9. Rising sea levels are caused by melting glaciers.

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