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Our Earth is undergoing radical change with regards to the climate. The ice caps are melting, hurricanes and storms are getting harsher and harsher, a couple of locations are experiencing greater flooding, wildfires are turning into much more common occurrences, extreme droughts are eliminating entire water sources- the list just goes on and on. Today, a lot of organizations and institutions are keeping an eye on what’s going on on our planet climate-wise, and NASA is one of the most important ones out there. Throughout the years, NASA has been watching more than thousands of locations around the world using its space tech, searching for signs of climate change. Because of these reasons, they launched the website called the Images Of Change where they show the comparison photos of various places on Earth, focusing on melting glaciers, results of wildfires, deforestation, extreme droughts, and a couple of other phenomena.

Plastic contamination and floating waste in water supplies is a rising global issue. It poses serious risks both for humans and for the wildlife. However, sometimes some easy and simple solutions turn out to be the most effectual ones for problems like these. Kwinana, an Australian city became a globally known city just for this reason.

After the plastic ban in Taiwan, people started to use very innovative ideas to carry their items after shopping. Sacks, buckets, pots, even laundry nets are used instead of paying for plastic bags. Some do it just for protesting this law, but some others think that it is too expensive if you have to pay for plastic bags for each shopping day. You can take a look at our gallery to see these funny photos.

This extremely dangerous, natural booby trap can be found between Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, England. It's a tiny, harmless-looking mountain stream, approximately six feet across, named Bolton Strid, or simply the Strid. However, under the water's surface, there is a deep gorge with strong undercurrents that pulls whoever falls into it to certain death. According to the rumors, not even a single person that has fallen into the Strid has managed to come out of it alive. Even their bodies haven't been found. If you have doubts about how a small mountain brook can be so deadly, you need to walk upstream. In less than 100 yards, this "harmless" stream will turn into a river 30 feet across. This river is called River Wharfe which runs through Yorkshire, but when it comes to the area of Bolton Abbey the river has to go through a small gap which causes the water to gain enormous speed and depth. The small gap on the Strid is merely an illusion as both banks are significantly undercut. Underneath is a network of hidden caverns and tunnels with the rest of the water of the river inside them. Nobody has an idea about how deep the Strid actually is.

It seems like people are starting to realize, slowly but eventually, devastating effect our acts can have on earth. Plastic is one of the biggest and environmentally damaging human labels we have made. One of the greatest sources of waste in our oceans and soil is single-use plastic straws and cutlery made of plastic. Although there are many ways in our daily life that can minimize plastic waste, there is a need for a bigger move, which includes converting the linear economy into a circular economy, and some businesses are finally taking action about it. 

71% of world consists of water. However, world being a watery place isn’t enough for everyone to be able to access drinking water, which is what about 785 million people are lack of.

The Atacama Desert, the World's driest non-polar desert, was hit by Hurricane Patricia, the world's most powerful hurricane, in 2015. But this hurricane led to a miracle and revived the flowers in the desert. Also it has never bloomed so much before. As a result, these wonderful pink landscapes appeared.

After the Australian bushfire crisis, natural habitats of thousands of animals have been destroyed. Animals living in those areas started to starve. In order to feed those animals, thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potatoes are being dropped by Helicopters.

According to farmers and scientists, the bee population in the world has been decreasing dramatically. Especially for the US, since 1962, working bee colonies has decreased 90% per hectar. There are several reasons behind this: pesticides, changing in climate and decline in natural habitats. Some heroes can’t be an onlooker and stay silent. Morgan Freeman is one of heroes that fight for bees. We as weirdlake.com really admire what he did.

The oldest tree which had been alive since the times before the Egyptians pyramids were built was cut down in 1964. A bristlecone pine named as Prometheus was located in Nevada. A geography student, Donald Currey who took permission to take a few samples from bristlecone pines in the area found this very old tree which may be more than 4000 years old and cut it.

Italy wants to be sure that their youth is educated on climate issue and is taking action for it. Starting from 2020 academic year, climate issues will be mandatory in İtaly, which is for the first time in the world history. Minister of Education, Lorenze Fioramonti announced 33 hours of climate courses in one year.

Although we have a tendency to forget it, our planet Earth is our home. We are gifted by the universe and we need to repay it by taking good care of it which is not always the case. Yet, there are some heroes among society, taking action to save the planet, minding about the future, do all they can do for perpetuity of this fascinating world.

71% of world consists of water. However, world being a watery place isn’t enough for everyone to be able to access drinking water, which is what about 785 million people are lack of. 96.5% of the water sources of our planet is from the oceans which is saline water and the kind that humans can’t drink. To satisfy our drinking water needs, there are rivers, lakes and groundwater.

It may be sounding impossible to see snow falling in a desert, but it’s not. The Sahara Desert, which is the biggest hot desert around the world (yes, Arctic and Antartica are counted as deserts) doesn’t receive much rain, rather it’s large, hot and dry. The Sahara Desert occupies a place above 3 million square miles in the north of Africa.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been a famous artist with global success and is mostly known for his movies such as The Great Gatsby or Titanic. There’s another side of DiCaprio which is rarely known, he has been raising money within a foundation carrying his name, constituted for environmental issues. The foundation declared its main purpose as protecting and saving the last wild animal species in the world and preventing the extinction.