1. Galapagas Islands: Nearly 9,000 species call the islands and their surrounding waters home.
Threat: Ecosystem is being destroyed
Time Remaining: Unknown
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2. The Maldives: Smallest Asian Country in population and land area
Threat: Sinking
Time Remaining: Less than 100 years
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3. Great Barrier Reef: World's largest coral reef
Threat: Coral bleaching
Time Remaining: less than 100 years
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4. Venice: Sunk by 9 inches in the last 100 years
Threat: Sinking
Time Remaining: Less than 70 years
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5. The Dead Sea: The world's saltiest body of water (10x saltier than the ocean)
Threat: Shrinking
Time Remaining: Less than 50 years
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6. The Alps: Since 1880's temperatures have increased 2x faster than global average
Threat: Ice loss
Time Remaining: Less than 40 years
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7. Madagascar: 4th largest island in the world
Threat: Forest is being destroyed
Time Remaining: Less than 35 years
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8. The Congo Basin: World's 2nd largest rainforest (after the Amazon's, more than 1.3 million square miles)
Threat: tropical forest being destroyed
Time Remaining: Less than 25 years
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9. Glacier National Park: in the 1900's there were 150 glaciers, in 2005 there were 27 glaciers
Threat: ice loss
Time Remaining: less than 20 years
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10. Taj Mahal: Main marble dome is 35 meters high. Construction started in 1632 and took 21 years to complete.
Threat: closing to the public because of air pollution and mass tourism Time Remaining: 5 years
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1 comment:
Gorgeous pictures. We not only got a geography lesson but a history lesson as well. To think future generations will never get to experience these amazing places is a shame. Thank you for showing these breath taking scenes. I remember visiting Venice in 1958. We were told at that time that the cathedral was sinking and the government was trying to raise it by a foot. Looks like that was to no avail.
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