Environment

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From **United Nations Environment Programme**
Global Environment Outlook

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Global Warming
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[|CBS Sunday Morning] had a short segment about global warming. The segment presented two cases of global warming's effects on people in two very different parts of the world. The segment begins in the Maldives where rising ocean levels threaten the islands. The segment then transitions to Greenland where shrinking glaciers are threatening native ways of life. **Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:** [|Rising Sea Levels - A Tale of Two Cities] [|The Breathing Earth - Interactive Map] [|View Glacier Melt in Google Earth]

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