FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?

Semi-desert in Sudan – an area of desertification.

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?Coral reefs, Bali – under threat from global warming, pollution, siltation, overfishing, etc

Tropical rainforest, Amazonia.

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?

Tropical rainforest, Amazonia.

Tropical rainforest, Amazonia.

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?

Tropical rainforest, Amazonia. Arctic ice sheet, Greenland.

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?

Wetlands near Liverpool, UK.

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?

Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2010. Nesting pelicans are seen landing as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well as terns and gulls.

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?Beach and low-lying coastline, Hawaii

FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT?The Dust Bowl - severe dust storms on American prairie lands from 1930 to 1936. They were caused by severe drought and decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion.