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Every year, one third of all food produced globally goes to waste. This not only affects our wallets but also has a significant impact on our environment. When food waste ends up in landfills, it releases methane gas, which contributes to climate change. We can reduce food waste by buying only what we need, planning our meals, and composting our food scraps. Let's work together to reduce food waste and make a positive impact on our environment. Food waste is a significant problem that affects individuals, businesses, and the environment. According to the United Nations, approximately one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste each year. This equates to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, which is enough to feed three billion people. Food waste has many negative consequences. Firstly, it is a waste of resources. Producing food requires land, water, energy, and other resources. When food is wasted, these resources are also wasted. This is not only bad for the environment but also ...

Climate Change is Curse

  
The mechanics of the earth’s climate system are simple. When energy from the sun is reflected off the earth and back into space, or when the earth’s atmosphere releases energy, the planet cools. When the earth absorbs the sun’s energy, or when atmospheric gases prevent heat released by the earth from radiating into space, the planet warms. A variety of factors, both natural and human, can influence the earth’s climate system.

The effects of climate change heighten competition for resources such as land, food, and water, fueling socioeconomic tensions and, increasingly often, leading to mass displacement. Climate is a risk multiplier that makes worse already existing challenges. 

Adélie penguins are certainly one of the most prominent penguins of Antarctica and their life is in danger due to climate change. 

The penguins stay in colonies, some of which are in hassle.A substantial colony of adélie penguins—around 40,000 of them—lives in eastern Antarctica. Scientists have been watching these flightless, and every 12 months between January and March, the ones breeders get busy. The location turns into domestic to literally heaps of squawking fluff balls, in any other case called penguin chicks. But this year, scientists encountered about 18,000 tiny grey corpses.Two of the colony’s adélie chicks had died, apparently of starvation.

The premise of this study is on trend in adélie penguin populations. Our study supports this claim as adélie penguins had a bad fashion, decreasing from 5085 to 329 breeding pairs in twenty years. Sea ice conditions had been fairly variable at some stage in these twenty years. Moreover, we witnessed peaks in krill abundances ranging each four to 5 years from 1993- 2013. Whilst evaluating the whole adélie penguin breeding pairs and sea ice length, we located no correlation.

This changed into authentic for nearly all of the comparisons .Even though insignificant, it seems that longer sea ice durations coincide with better adélie breeding pairs. We also located a tremendous trend among annual sea ice period and krill abundances but this changed into no longer statistical.
Understanding the life of krills is crucial in predicting possible impacts better up the food net device, just like the adélie penguins.

 The environmental results may vary dramatically at different locations. As for instance, trends in the extent and duration of sea ice across the Antarctic continent display high spatial heterogeneity .

 Even within Antarctic areas there have been versions inside the quantity and duration of sea ice. For example, the East Antarctic place, described right there as between 30 and a hundred and fifty°E, has confirmed considerably extra complicated developments in sea ice seasonality and quantity than the relaxation of the continent .

Given in 1980, at some places in East Antarctic regions, there was a massive shortening of the sea ice season by way of as much as 93 days . Meanwhile, many at different localities have skilled a huge lengthening of the sea ice season . 

Antarctic sea ice is expected to undergo similarly declines in the maximum severe weather version situation, East Antarctica would be completely freed from sea ice in February by 2081–2100, even as handiest small portions of the Weddell and Ross Seas might preserve sea ice.

Environmental changes that are currently undergoing within the Southern Ocean, together with modifications in the timing of sea ice develop and retreat, receding glaciers, and shifting oceanographic fronts, may want to cause major adjustments in the terrestrial breeding habitats. The adélie penguins are the popular penguins of Southern Ocean predator that is probable to be tormented by environmental affects related to the Anthropocene . 

The species forms breeding colonies on ice-loose land alongside the Antarctic shoreline and forages in large part in the % ice zone in the course of the breeding season . Adélie penguin populations are acknowledged to be sensitive to changes in sea ice volume, the timing of sea ice retreat and the volume of glaciation . 

Given the massive nearby variability inside the bodily manifestations of weather trade, it's miles probably that geographically distant populations of adélie penguins will enjoy very extraordinary environmental impacts .Adélie penguin breeding distribution. Gray shading suggests the approximate extant breeding distribution of adélie penguins . 

 Sea ice situations strongly affect adélie penguin populations in East Antarctica, despite the fact that the mechanisms of effectsare complicated and depend upon the character, volume and timing of the presence of sea ice .

 The proposed mechanism for this effect became a discounted performance of chick provisioning at a essential time in the breeding season, as extra extensive sea ice will increase the duration of the adults’ foraging journeys and decreases the frequency at which the chicks are fed .

The negative impact of strangely significant sea ice changed into also felt on the Pétrels Island colony at Pointe Géologie inside the 2013/14 breeding season, with emaciated chicks frequently discovered throughout the summer .
 
In this example, the terrible impact of big sea ice become compounded via strangely warm air temperatures that brought on snow melt and remarkable quantities of rain . Rain may be deadly to adélie penguin chicks, as their downy plumage isn't always water-proof and when wet they'll succumb to bloodless temperatures 

For penguins who lay their eggs on the floor.Rain & puddles are horrific due to the fact eggs can’t live on when they’re mendacity in a pool of water. Chicks that don’t have water resistant feathers can become moist and die from hypothermia.

The advertélie penguin is a sea ice obligate and best happens wherein there may be sea ice for a good a part of the year.

Where sea ice is disappearing within the northern Antarctic peninsula, the advertélie penguins are also
Disappearing.

It’s a depend of cutting worldwide emissions. There’s now not very a good deal compensatory habitat management you can do, YOU can not CREATE ISLANDS inside the OCEAN ! !

This is Climate emergency and we all have to do something about it.The year 2020 is our chance to make this happen.We,humans, are not only responsible for saving and protecting out race but also other species of our Planet.  

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