2. What is Global Warming? Everybody is talking about "climate change" and "global warming". But what is global warming, actually?
3. What Is The Greenhouse Effect? Seen from space, our atmosphere is but a tiny layer of gas around a huge bulky planet. But it is this gaseous outer ring and its misleadingly called greenhouse effect that makes life on Earth possible – and that could destroy life as we know it.
4. Greenhouse Gases: Lifegivers and Lifetakers In what seems like nature’s brutal irony, the gases that make life on Earth possible now threaten our very existence. Read our greenhouse gas profiles and find out why CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide might become benevolent climate killers — and how we can react.
5. The UN Global Warming ReportFacts and Predictions The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report delivered a huge blow to global warming skeptics. Leading climate scientists are now 90 percent sure that human activity is heating up the planet. They present various scenarios that show where global warming could take us by the end of the century.
6. A Climate History of Change: The (Ab)Normality of Global Warming The climate is warming—so what? The Earth has warmed up and cooled down for billions of years! Unfortunately, man-made global warming is different. Here is how we know about prehistoric climate and what this could teach us about the future.
7. Effects of Global Warming The effects of global warming range from a rise in sea levels to the extinction of certain species of flora and fauna. Basically, global warming means an increase in temperature of the Earth's atmosphere. This increase in temperature will trigger a series of events which can cause a lot of destruction on the planet.
8. Environmental Pollution. Our planet and its environment are much more fragile than past generations ever understood. Only in the last few decades have we come to recognize the problems caused by that lack of comprehension. Our biosphere's delicate balance, upset by humanity's methods of manufacturing, waste disposal and use of resources, must be restored. Having learned enough to start working to correct it, we must now learn even more about the protection of our fragile ecology, so that we may maintain our biosphere in the natural balance it once held on its own. Learn more about environment, ecology, conservation and our lonely planet by browsing the environmental pollution and related environmental articles and topics listed here.