EFFECTS OFSEA LEVEL RISING

By Nathalie Troost, Bram Nap, Youri de Ruiter & Selina van Luik

INDEX

Food supplies

Extinction

Diseases

Precautions

FOOD SUPPLIES

Effects on the food supplies:

Crops will be destroyed Infected crops Contamination of the ground

Less space to grow crops

Water supplies contaminated Even less drinking water

EXTINCTION

Effects on animals:

Decreasing habitat Contamination of the water

Less food

Melting ice sheets Animals moving to other places

Different “natural” enemies

DISEASES

Effects on diseases:

Vector-borne diseases Contaminate the water supplies

Increase of breeding grounds for mosquitoes Main cause of malaria and dengue

Infected water snails Able to adapt to salty water levels

PRECAUTIONS

No certain solution yet Creating lakes in Australian desert

Global warming must be decreased first

You can do things yourself Not putting appliances on standby

Not possible to completely stop it Thermal expansion

THE END