Climate change and loss of biodiversity

Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the biggest environmental challenges facing our planet today. Both phenomena are closely related and have devastating consequences for the Earth's ecosystem. Climate change is mainly caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, mainly due to human activities such as the use of fossil fuels and deforestation. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere and cause global warming, which leads to extreme climate changes such as heat waves, droughts, floods and increasingly intense storms. (Theo Bianchi, more at ecoblog.it)