Monday, June 27, 2011

Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse - Features - Al Jazeera English

Flooding in China is currently affecting approximately five million people [GALLO/GETTY]
Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse - Features - Al Jazeera English: "The rate of ice loss in two of Greenland's largest glaciers has increased so much in the last 10 years that the amount of melted water would be enough to completely fill Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes in North America.

West Texas is currently undergoing its worst drought since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, leaving wheat and cotton crops in the state in an extremely dire situation due to lack of soil moisture, as wildfires continue to burn."

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