Global warming is getting more drastic every year. As part of Earth Month, National Geographic looks at how climate change is changing our planet – and shows what we humans have to do with it. In the far north, Greenland's glaciers are melting, the world's largest lakes are losing water, and forest fires are now commonplace in European summers – even in Germany. The earth has been visibly changing for decades and has been changing more and more rapidly in recent years. Global climate change is to blame – and so are we humans.
According to the German Meteorological Service, the air temperature in Germany increased by an average of 1.6 degrees Celsius from 1881 to 2021. The main reason was and continues to be the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases caused by human activity. For example, through deforestation for agricultural use or land sealing for urban development, as well as through emissions from industry and transport. (INSA GERMEROTT, more at nationalgeographic.de)



