What is climate change? Climate change is what happens when greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and methane) trap more heat in the earth’s surface. The earth is naturally insulated by the gases in the atmosphere, which for tens of thousands of years have kept the earth’s temperature relatively stable. [...]
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Ten years to save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef 08 April 2011 Magazine issue 2807. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Climate Change Topic Guide TIME is not on our side: we have just 10 years to save the Great Barrier Reef. That’s according to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg at the University of Queensland in [...]
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