Climate change is here, it is no more a looming threat waiting to strike us in the distant future! The surge in the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, tides, bushfires, storms, heatwaves and drought, in addition to rising sea levels, melting glaciers in the Arctic, shrinking water bodies around the world haveRead More
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Unchecked Ocean Acidification May Cause Mass Extinction
There has been a looming threat to our marine life which oceanographers, across the globe, have been monitoring closely in recent years. The increasing carbon emission from the anthropogenic activities and the growing human population has led to a new phenomenon called ocean acidification. On a pH scale, zero is most acidic and 14 isRead More
Greenhouse Effect: How does it affect all of us
‘Greenhouse gas‘, we have been hearing about this term since school. Remember how air conditions would emit greenhouse gas ‘CFC’ and that we were supposed to not use them for the same reason? So greenhouse gas is just like many other gases in the atmosphere, but only with a twist. The gas absorbs energy withinRead More