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Causes and Effects of Climate Change

What causes climate change (also known as global warming)? And what are the effects of climate change?
Dead Baby Turtle Found With 104 Pieces of Plastic in Stomach

A baby sea turtle that washed ashore in Boca Raton, Florida last week had 104 pieces of plastic in it stomach. The plastic products ranged from wrappers to balloons to bottle labels to twist ties used to cinch trash bags, as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Some of the Country’s Biggest Supporters of Climate Action? Latinos

More than 58 million people currently living in the U.S. — 17 percent of the population — are of Latin-American descent. By 2065 that percentage is expected to rise to nearly a quarter. Hardly a monolith, this diverse group includes people with roots in dozens of countries; they or their ancestors might have arrived here at any point between the 1500s and today. They differ culturally, linguistically and politically.
The Amazon is still burning - illegal gold mining could make it worse

The Brazilian government has banned most land clearing for 60 days, in an attempt to stop the fires which have devastated parts of the Amazon rainforest.

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