Environmental Issues

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In this day we hear more and more, about how our planet is changing, we feel the effects of this changes, such as increased extreme weather events, the rising temperatures ,more precipitation, fluds ,forest fire

Global warming is an extremely severe problem facing the world today. The evolution of environment was in the specialist’s attention for over 40 years, but they didn’t expect to see the degradation of Earth happened so fast and so soon.

Over the years our Planet suffer many changes because human activities such as the production of energy from burning fossil fuels, and deforestation could cause global temperatures to rise by intensifying the earth’s greenhouse effect.

An essential component of the earth’s climate, the greenhouse effect is the warming process that results from the atmospheric presence of heat-trapping gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. Much of the solar energy that reaches the planet is absorbed by oceans and land masses, which in turn radiate the energy back into space. However, small concentrations of water vapor and other “greenhouse gases” convert some of this energy to heat and either retain it or reflect it back to the earth’s surface. This “trapped” energy creates a blanket of warm air around the earth that moderates global temperatures and climate patterns. Without greenhouse gases, the earth would exist in a perpetual ice age.

Today, however, major changes are taking place. People are conducting an inadvertent global experiment by changing the face of the entire planet. We are destroying the ozone layer, which allows life to exist on the Earth's surface. what we are doing could have serious consequence to life on our planet.

The effects of global warming are becoming very apparent on earth and are leaving lasting effects on the environment

One of the major problems the we face today is the rising temperatures,caused by the greenhouse effect, and this is followed by melting the glacial from...