Between 1994 and 2017, British scientists analyzed satellite images of glaciers, mountains and ice sheets and found that the Earth lost a staggering 28 trillion tonnes of ice during that period.
It was surpassed by 2016 by only 0.04 degrees Celsius, and we had the warmest climate in history for 5 years in a row.
"I am 11 years old. My generation will repair the damage done by the government. Just look at us!”
Stephen Hawking died in March this year, but his new book Brief Answers to the Big Questions will reveal some of his final thoughts, including how humanity might survive climate change.
Global warming, which is the result of human behavior and refers to an increase in the average temperature on Earth, has not occurred in the last 20 years. The causes of this phenomenon go back a long way into the past.
In 2006, Al Gore, who almost became the president of the United States in 2006, in the environmental documentary film An Inconvenient Truth (David Guggenheim) presented us with the threat of global warming, which is caused by man's reckless behavior and which can trigger a fatal chain of events - from the extreme weather phenomena, floods, droughts, epidemics to the mass extinction of humanity. In the new US President Donald Trump, climate change has a new stubborn enemy, so the sequel to the documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) comes as ordered.
Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary Before the Flood can be viewed online for free until November 6, 2016. The documentary by Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens is a call for immediate action on climate change.
If the worst scenario predicted by climatologists comes true, sooner or later the world will turn into a desert. In addition to environmentalists, who "mess around" mainly with calculations, many artists try to visualize the consequences of global warming. One of the more fascinating digital shows comes from Joel Krebs, who took into account the most bleak predictions in which the Earth needs as much water as the Sahara. Check out what the world's landmarks would look like if they were in the desert.
Launched into space last year, the Landsat 8 satellite is capturing incredible images of Earth. But its meaning goes much deeper than just bringing beautiful images, because with its monitoring, it has a significant impact on the understanding of nature and its phenomena, and at the same time it significantly influences the positive development of a wide variety of disciplines.