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Bookmark or Share- Sea level rise is a global threat - World Economic ForumIn its Surging Seas report, the organization highlights the dangers facing the communities of the Pacific Small Island Developing States: "The Pacific SIDS, especially those in the western tropical Pacific (e.g., Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands), are particularly vulnerable to SLR [sea level rise] because of: (i) high exposure to tropical cyclones and other tropical ...
- Is fashion bad for the environment? | World Economic ForumCotton farming used up so much water from the Aral Sea that it dried up after about 50 years Image: NASA Fashion causes water-pollution problems, too. Textile dyeing is the world’s second-largest polluter of water, since the water leftover from the dyeing process is often dumped into ditches, streams, or rivers.
- These pictures show how much the Caspian Sea is shrinking | World ...Research suggests that the level of the lake has been dropping for some time, as the chart below shows. These dropping levels are bad news for planet and people. For example, the Caspian Sea is the world's largest spawning ground for sturgeon and is home to the Caspian Seal - the only marine mammal that lives there.
- 7 ways to break the fast fashion habit - and save the planetIntensive cotton farming in Central Asia is partly responsible for the drying up of the Aral Sea - once one of the four biggest lakes in the world, but now known as the Aralkum Desert. As the report says: “We are unwittingly wearing the fresh water supply of central Asia and destroying fragile ecosystems.”
- What is desertification and why is it important to understand?In the 1960s, the area was covered by the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea. Since then, it has shrunk to a tenth of its former size, with only three small, highly salty lakes remaining. In Soviet times, its waters were used for irrigating a semi-desert region to grow cotton, leading to a drop in water levels.
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