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Thus, deforestation has and will continue to have disproportionate effects on indigenous people in Latin American tropical forests, including the displacement of these communities from their native lands. [112] Also, in the Amazon Basin where fish are a main resource, precipitation and flooding greatly impact fish reproduction drastically.
These effects not only pollute the environment but also have detrimental effects on both physical and mental health. Many of these extractive industries such as oil and gas and mining have caused pollution to water sources, food sources as well as effects in air quality. This has started to affect people's bodies, especially those of women.
People living in Pahokee, Florida, face a thick level of soot that pollutes the local area each October due to sugar burning. The sugarcane farmers set their fields on fire before each harvest to burn everything down but the sugarcane. The pollution that results then travels and negatively affects the surrounding largely poor, Black communities.
The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of The post Glaciers provide drinking water to billions, and 2/3 ...
A Mississippi environmental regulator has denied claims that the state agency he leads discriminated against the capital city of Jackson in its distribution of federal funds for wastewater treatment.
People living in poverty: Climate change disproportionally affects poor people in low-income communities and developing countries around the world. [27] Those in poverty have a higher chance of experiencing the ill-effects of climate change, due to their increased exposure and vulnerability. [28]
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Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...