The New York Times has gathered 183 climate stories from around the world. You can even type-in the name of your county to see the top climate change risk in your area. In my county of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, heat waves pose the greatest risk.
Here a few other risks from around the world:
- In Turkey, sea snot (or marine mucilage) is warming the water
- In Pakistan, temperatures are over 126 degrees. Such heat can cause organ failure within a few hours
- Skaters are falling through the ice in the canals of the Netherlands
- Two-thirds of Moroccan oases have disappeared
- In September 2020, Dakar was filled with algae-colored water
- 2,500-year-old South African baobab trees are dying
- Ice loss in Greenland is accelerating by a factor of five over the past thirty years
- Mexico City is shrinking due to unstable ground
- Namibia is trying to sell elephants because they can’t live due to drought.
- Global warming will lead to massive migration. It is already happening in Guatemala
- German spruce trees are dying
- The Panama Canal is often so low on water that some ships can’t pass through it.
- Parts of Sudan are covered in sand.
- In 2019-2020, 72,000 acres in Australia burned in wildfires.
- Droughts in Afghanistan are leading to food insecurity
- Fires in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine has released radioactive material into the atmosphere.
- In Tajikstan, more than 1,000 glaciers have disappeared over the past 40 years.
- The world’s oldest painting of an animal (Indonesia) is disappearing. It is 45,000 years old.
- A Bolivian lake is gone
- Up to 50% of gray seal pups in Estonia are dead because there is no ice.
- The Swiss alps are crumbling
Read the entire report here.