Environmental issues in the United States

Environmental issues in the United States Per capita anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by country for the year 2000 including land-use change. See also: Environment of the United States As with many other countries there are a number of environmental issues in the United States. Contents   [hide]  1 Issues 1.1 Climate change 1.2 Conservation 1.3 Deforestation 1.4 Energy 1.5 Invasive...

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Forest and Climate

Forest and Climate When forests are destroyed, they release large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change. WWF'S REDD+ ASKS FOR UNFCCC Learn more about WWF's efforts at UNFCCC meetings Winning the fight against climate change Forests have a critical role to play in combating global warming. And WWF's Forest & Climate Initiative has a strategy to win that...

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The Solutions

The Solutions By 2050, we could get all the energy we need from renewable sources. Achieving this goal IS possible.WWF's Energy Report is a provocative vision of a world run entirely on renewable energy by 2050.This will solve most of the problems of climate change and dwindling fossil fuel resources.Paramount will be the substantive increase in measures to conserve energy in all sectors.We can show that such a transition...

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The Science in a Nutshell

The Science in a Nutshell We know greenhouse gases such as CO2 warm the air by trapping heat radiating from the Earth’s surface. That is 100-year-old science.The first calculations that doubling CO2 in the atmosphere would raise temperatures by 2-6ºC were done over a century ago by Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius.Today’s climate models broadly agree.We know the world is warming, on average by 0.74ºC during the past...

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What causes climate change?

What causes climate change? Earth is a very special planet – it is close enough to the sun to receive a lot of energy, but far enough not to be scorched. It is in what you might call the "goldilocks zone", where the conditions are just right for life as we know it.To help keep these conditions just right, our planet is wrapped in a layer of greenhouse gases. This layer keeps the globe warm like a blanket, shielding it from...

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