Heat and drought may cause forests to die and food crops to fail. ... As fewer and fewer trees are left to take up carbon dioxide, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases faster and faster. ... Global circulation models have shown that warming will be faster near the poles than near the equator. ... Much depends on how fast the polar ice melts. ... Then U.S. consumes more energy than any other nation on earth and contributes one fifth of all the carbon dioxide that enters the atmosphere each year. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Heat and drought may cause forests to die and food crops to fail. ... As fewer and fewer trees are left to take up carbon dioxide, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases faster and faster. ... Global circulation models have shown that warming will be faster near the poles than near the equator. ... Much depends on how fast the polar ice melts. ... Then U.S. consumes more energy than any other nation on earth and contributes one fifth of all the carbon dioxide that enters the atmosphere each year. ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Human health, patterns and intensity of precipitation, water and food supplies, coastal development, energy supplies, the viability of natural systems: all will be affected if Earth's climate continues to change. ... Unequal divisions of resources and emissions between industrial and developing nations has raised many issues over who should pay. ... Unable to migrate fast enough to keep up with the changing climate, whole ecosystems would be lost. ... Distribution of resources between nations: While consumption has risen steadily worldwide, there remains a profound disparity between...

• Word Count: 1624
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Human health, patterns and intensity of precipitation, water and food supplies, coastal development, energy supplies, the viability of natural systems: all will be affected if Earth's climate continues to change. ... Unequal divisions of resources and emissions between industrial and developing nations has raised many issues over who should pay. ... Unable to migrate fast enough to keep up with the changing climate, whole ecosystems would be lost. ... Distribution of resources between nations: While consumption has risen steadily worldwide, there remains a profound disparity between...

• Word Count: 1622
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The  Guardian summarizes a United Nations warning that, "One in six countries in the world face food shortages this year because of severe droughts that could become semi-permanent under climate change. ... As the  World Resources Institute  highlights there is a huge  contrast between developed nations and developing nations  in greenhouse emissions, as well as the reasons for those emissions. ... Reasons vary from lacking resources to cope, compared to developed nations, immense poverty, regions that many developing countries are happen to be the ones where severe weather will hit the ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With poverty, comes food insecurity and chronic malnourishment. ... Almost 80 percent of the nation's twenty-two million inhabitants live in rural areas and depend heavily on subsistence agriculture. ... Rural inhabitants rely on forests for food, fodder, fuel, wood, fertilizers, building materials, and medicinal plants. ... Forests are being cut down faster than they can grow, partly to make room for new farmland and partly to harvest trees as fuel. ... Downstream flooding destroys cultivable soil and food crops. ...

• Word Count: 2084
• Approx Pages: 8