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10 YEARS OF IMAGING OCEANIA
SPOT VEGETATION
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Mining
and the Environment
Australia is one of the world's
largest producers of minerals. Besides other environmental
impacts mining is responsible of 10% of Australia's greenhouse
gas emissions.
Kalgoorlie Super Pit is Australia's
largest open cut gold mine. Source
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Endangered
Islands
Low-lying Pacific islands could
be wiped off the map by rising seas induced by global warming.
A 50 cm rise would lead to the displacement of about 200 million
people worldwide.
Tidal flooding on Funafuti
Tuvalu. ©2005
Gary Braasch.
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Drought
Rainfall over eastern Australia,
the most populated area, has been decreasing. Locally the
annual precipitation has fallen from 400 mm to 200 mm over
the last 40 years.
Displacement of the shore of
Lake Hume. Source: www.flickr.com
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Worlds
Greatest Reef in Peril
Since 1978, the 2,300 km long Great
Barrier Reef is suffering from mass bleaching, a threatening
condition triggered by unusually high sea surface temperatures.
Source: commons.wikimedia.org
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Raging
Fires
Depending on the season, bushfires
can occur in different parts of Australia throughout the
year. Fire frequency is also closely related to drought
years and especially El Niño events.
Fires detected by MODIS over
a 10-day period in November 2008. Source: MODIS
Rapid Response Project, NASA/GSFC
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