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Table 1
(continued)
Date/year
Incidents
Place
Effects
References
Last few years
Unusually large wildfires.
It’s occurring nearly five
times more often since the
1970s and 80s
Alaska, Indonesia Canada,
California, Spain, Chile and
Portugal
Such fires are burning more than
six times the land area as before,
and lasting almost five times
longer. Loss of lives and property;
loss of biodiversity and ecology
destruction as well as human and
other animal migration
Brändlin (2017). https://
around-the-world/a19465490
Last few decades
Climate related changes
Papua New Guinea, Sierra
Leone, Liberia and other
parts of the world
Water sources become increasingly
unreliable. Drinkable water gets
contaminated due to increased
flooding. In Papua New Guinea,
the number of people without
access to clean water close to home
has increased to 4.8 million people,
a 63% of the population
WaterAid. https://www.
wateraid.org/us/where-wework/papua-new-guinea
Last few decades
Coral reefs and marine eco
system destruction
Hawaii
Coral reefs and other marine
ecosystems damaged. As average
precipitation decreased in the last
century, freshwater availability
decreased in appreciable amount
and affecting delicate land-based
ecosystems, often harming native
species. In the last 50 years, due to
sea level rise along Hawaii’s
shores, coastal communities are in
suffering end
US-EPA (2016). What
Climate Change Means for
Hawaii, 2016
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Table 1
(continued)
Date/year
Incidents
Place
Effects
References
Last few years
Unusually large wildfires.
It’s occurring nearly five
times more often since the
1970s and 80s
Alaska, Indonesia Canada,
California, Spain, Chile and
Portugal
Such fires are burning more than
six times the land area as before,
and lasting almost five times
longer. Loss of lives and property;
loss of biodiversity and ecology
destruction as well as human and
other animal migration
Brändlin (2017). https://
around-the-world/a19465490
Last few decades
Climate related changes
Papua New Guinea, Sierra
Leone, Liberia and other
parts of the world
Water sources become increasingly
unreliable. Drinkable water gets
contaminated due to increased
flooding. In Papua New Guinea,
the number of people without
access to clean water close to home
has increased to 4.8 million people,
a 63% of the population
WaterAid. https://www.
wateraid.org/us/where-wework/papua-new-guinea
Last few decades
Coral reefs and marine eco
system destruction
Hawaii
Coral reefs and other marine
ecosystems damaged. As average
precipitation decreased in the last
century, freshwater availability
decreased in appreciable amount
and affecting delicate land-based
ecosystems, often harming native
species. In the last 50 years, due to
sea level rise along Hawaii’s
shores, coastal communities are in
suffering end
US-EPA (2016). What
Climate Change Means for
Hawaii, 2016