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Bookmark or Share- Desert: Mission: Biomes - NASA Earth ObservatoryDesert biomes are the driest of all the biomes. In fact, the most important characteristic of a desert is that it receives very little rainfall. Most deserts receive less than 300 mm a year compared to rainforests, which receive over 2,000 mm. That means that the desert only gets 10 percent of the rain that a rainforest gets!
- Climate change is displacing 20 million people each year, Oxfam study ...Climate adaptation could make the world more peaceful. Over the past decade, extreme weather has displaced 20 million people a year, Oxfam’s Forced from Home report states. That’s the equivalent of the population of China’s capital city, Beijing, having to leave their homes each year. Nobody is immune from this growing threat, but poor ...
- Climate crisis raised the risk of 2021 weather extremes | World ...1. A record warm February in East Asia in 2021, made four to 20 times more likely by climate change. 2. A drought in Iran in 2020 and 2021, made 50 percent more likely. 3. A July 2021 marine heat wave in the northwest Pacific was made 43 times more likely. 4.
- Food shortages and conflict put millions of people at risk | World ...Conflict was the main driver of acute food insecurity, affecting almost 100 million people, up from 77 million in 2019. Economic shocks, often fuelled by COVID-19, replaced weather events as the second driver of acute food insecurity, both in terms of numbers of people and countries affected. More than 40 million people in 17 countries or ...
- What are the effects of climate change on Southeast Asia? | World ...The report predicts particularly stark consequences for Southeast Asia, one of the planet’s most vulnerable regions to climate change. The archipelagic regional bloc will be hit by rising sea levels, heat waves, drought, and more intense and frequent bouts of rain. Known as “rain bombs”, heavy rain events will intensify by seven per cent ...
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