Stranger Earth: Six weird ways climate change is affecting our planet
From the first “blue marble” photo taken by Apollo astronauts over 50 years ago, we’ve come a long way in recognizing that planet Earth, our home, is a dynamic system made up of many smaller dynamic systems- all interconnected. Now think of the domino effect where destabilizing one system will impact another. As such, when we face a change, say, to Earth’s climatic system, whether natural or anthropogenic (human-induced), the impacts of this change are widespread. And quite frankly, complicated too.
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