Thursday, March 5, 2009

Impact of Climate Change

Dryland in India
Photo Credit: UNDP
Kavas village, Rajasthan
Photo Credit: UNDP
In the past two decades, four islands of Sundarbans - Bedford, Lohachara, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga - have sunk into the sea and 6,000 families have been made homeless

Map of changes in the thickness of mountain glaciers since 1970. Orange and red colors indicate thinning, blue colors indicate thickening
Satellite image of Gangotri Glacier in India showing its decline since a maximum. It has been noticed that between 1977 and 1990, the Gangotri glacier retreated by as much as 364 meters or about one-third of a kilometer.
Photo credit: Dunedin Canmore Housing Association
A project in Slateford in Edinburgh, Scotland, which has built car-free eco-green housing

Photo credit: Akuppa
People carrying banners and skeletons on the National Climate Change march in London on November 4, 2006

Photo credit: Mark Wolfe/FEMA photo
These images were taken by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in Gulfport, Mississippi, USA, on September 8 2005 and on August 11 2006, during and after the cleanup of debris from around the Memorial Hospital in Gulfport
More than 45 million cubic yards of land-based debris was left in Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina


Photo credit: Benjamin Pender
People carrying banners in the shape of cloud weather symbols on the National Climate Change march and Carnival of Climate Chaos in London on November 4 2006

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