• Orange and red show the areas where the risk of human induced desertification is higher. As it can be immediately seen, the most affected areas are along the equator line in Africa. Developing countries such as India and the Middle East and Eastern Europe are also thought to be affected.
• This also goes together with natural deforestation and desertification.
• Desertification and droughts are major causes of ecosystem losses and species mass migration or extinction.

• Not only does the melting of ice caps lead to a direct ecosystem loss, it also has, together with the melting of glaciers, an effect on the rise of the average sea level.
• Sea level rise impacts directly all those costal environments and ecosystems. Many islands would potentially disappear.

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 As temperatures increase, Snow melts and and sea levels rise

The sea levels keep on rising due ice melt of our North and South pole glaciers