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Climate Change: The Planet’s Greatest Challenge

by Anna Dalton

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Climate change is arguably the most pressing ecological issue of our time. Caused primarily by the accumulation of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, climate change is driving shifts in global temperatures, weather patterns, sea levels, and natural disasters.

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Human activities — particularly the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial agriculture — are the main contributors to climate change. As a result, polar ice caps are melting, wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense, and droughts and floods are disrupting communities and ecosystems around the world.

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