Environmental Facts + Articles

Off the West Coast of California there lies The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Without cutting down on plastics, the 1.98 trillion plastic particles in the N. Pacific ocean will rapidly increase. 

Useful Articles By Topic

Carbon Emissions by Country

• Our World in Data - Annual Carbon Emissions by Region

• Union of Concerned Scientists - Each Country's Share of CO2 Emissions

• NASA - Global Climate Change - How Do We Know?

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Ocean Acidification

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - How Does Climate Change Affect Coral Reefs?

• PMEL Carbon Program - Ocean Acidification

Sea Levels Increasing

• NASA - Global Climate Change - Ice Sheets

• NASA - Global Climate Change - Sea Change Quiz

• NASA - Global Climate Change - Video: Oceans of Climate Change

• NASA - Climate Kids - What is Happening to the Ocean?

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Shrinking Ice Sheets & Declining Snow Coverage

• NASA - Global Climate Change - Global Ice Viewer

• NASA - Global Climate Change - Ice Sheets

• National Snow and Ice Data Center

• NASA - Earth Observatory - Snow Cover