OUR CHANGING EARTH

About 2 weeks ago, I read a news article (read here) about a giant ice shelf (the size of 11,000 football fields) that broke off from Canada's Arctic. Scientists blame dramatic climatic changes as the culprit. This is really disturbing. Shouldn't these changes occur slowly over a period of hundreds of years? Apparently not. Experts are even saying such changes in our earth have become accelerated due to the greenhouse effect, pollution, etc. Is there any way to remedy this? =(

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Did you know that the level of the world's oceans is 500 feet higher than it was 25,000 years ago?

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Today, I read another environmentally-related article (read here) about 2006 being the warmest year ever. 'Nuff said.

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Need more proof that we are on an environmental decline? Here they are:

- Considerable extinction risk for whale group
- Warming seas send big-headed fish deeper
- 2007 will be warmest on record, experts predict
- Polar Bears May Be Listed as Threatened in the USA
- Climate Change Increases Food Security Concerns
- Ebola Virus Plus Hunting Could Wipe Out Gorillas
- No Climate Benefit Gained by Planting Temperate Forests
- China's Yangtze River Dolphin Declared Extinct
- Porpoises Starving in Europe Due to Ocean Warming
- Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes, Study Says
- Florida's Wild Rivers Increasingly Polluted, Experts Say
- Arctic Summers Ice Free by 2040, Study Predicts