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What would happen if Earth's temperature rose by 2 °C?
Overview of the impact on Earth of an increase in global average temperature.
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Borneo deforestation
Satellite images showing deforestation in Borneo from 2000 to 2018.
M.C. Hansen et al., University of Maryland, Google, USGS, NASA
Habitat loss
Deforestation, as in this quarry in Kerala, India, reduces the overall habitat available...
© Gulfu Photography—Moment/Getty Images
Water bloom
Aerial view of an algae bloom on the Dnieper River in Kiev, Ukraine.
© Leonid Andronov—iStock/Getty Images
biodiversity loss
The primary drivers of biodiversity loss are influenced by the exponential growth...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley