Earth in Heat: 10 Views of a Warming World
The impacts of global warming have begun to appear across the globe, from shrinking glaciers to rising seas.
Credits: © 2007 BY GARY BRAASCHWinds of Change, 2004 Renewable sources of energy, such as the wind farm pictured here in Rockville, Ill., offer hope of alternatives to the fossil fuels, such as coal, that emit the greenhouse gases, which cause climate change when burned. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Modern Atlantis, 2005 The children of Tuvalu, an island nation in the South Pacific just 16.5 feet (five meters) above sea level at its highest point, wait out an inundating high tide, more common with each passing year, on their "kaupapa," an outdoor sleeping platform. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Penguin Peril, 2000 Islets off of Antarctica's Anvers Island have lost half of their nesting pairs of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) since the 1970s. This rookery that has existed for at least 600 years must move because of rising temperatures and changing ice cover. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Drought with Chinese Characteristics, 2005 Droughts will also become more common in some areas, like the one that gripped Guangdong Province in China in 2005 and dried up wells and ponds that had served for centuries. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
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Mountain Retreat, 2004 Plants and animals that live at climatic boundaries, such as specific elevations in the mountains, have been retreating up alpine slopes as temperatures warm, like these plants on Mount Schrankogel in Austria. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Chicago Heat, 1995 Extreme weather events, such as the heat wave in Chicago in 1995 that killed 700 people or the hot spell in Europe that killed 20,000 in 2003, will become more common as the globe warms. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Bangladeshi Village, 2005 A one-meter (3.2-foot) rise in sea level, which could result from the melting of a fraction of Greenland's glaciers or Antarctica's ice sheets, would flood 10 percent of Bangladesh, including the village on Bhola Island pictured here, and displace at least 20 million people. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Antarctic Ice, 2000 Some of the massive glaciers in Antarctica, such as Marr Ice Piedmont pictured here, are thinning and racing to the sea at a faster rate. Some ice shelves, such as Larsen B, have disintegrated altogether. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
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Portage Glacier, 2005 A picture of Portage Glacier taken in 2005. The ice has receded nearly three miles (five kilometers), revealing a lake as it retreats farther into the mountains. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
Portage Glacier, 1914 A picture of Portage Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska, taken by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1914. © 2007 by Gary Braasch
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