Measuring Food and Health
This term refers to access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.
What is Food Security?
Variations in this natural phenomenon can influence global temperatures.
What is Solar Radiation?
The melting of ice caps leads to this major environmental consequence.
What is Sea-Level Rise?
Solar and wind energy are examples of this type of energy that helps mitigate climate change.
What is Renewable Energy?
Adaptation strategies in this city include the Thames Barrier, protecting it against rising ocean levels and increased storm surges.
What is London?
These indicators include life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and HALE.
What are Health Indicators?
This activity releases significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
What is Volcanic Activity?
Increased frequency of hurricanes and heatwaves is categorized under this impact of climate change.
What are Extreme Weather Events?
This mechanism involves setting a price on carbon emissions, often through taxes or cap-and-trade systems.
What is Carbon Pricing?
In hot, arid environments, traditional adaptations to water shortages include mobility and the use of drought-tolerant species. This region exemplifies these adaptations.
What is the Sahel?
This measure represents the average energy consumption in calories per person per day.
What is Caloric Intake?
Human activities such as deforestation and fossil fuel combustion primarily increase this gas in the atmosphere.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)?
This refers to the mass movement of people in this social impact of climate change.
What is Displacement of Populations?
Building these defenses can help communities adapt to rising sea levels.
What are Flood Defenses?
Rising temperatures could lead to desertification in parts of Europe, with southern England potentially experiencing a climate similar to this North African country.
What is Morocco?
This condition is caused by an insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced diet.
What is Malnutrition?
This agricultural sector emits methane and nitrous oxide, contributing to global warming.
What is Industrial Agriculture?
This term refers to the reduced availability of food due to climate-induced crop failures.
What is Food Insecurity?
Switching to these types of crops can help agriculture adapt to changing rainfall patterns.
What are Drought-Resistant Crops?
Dense forests in this country absorb around 13% of its greenhouse gas emissions but face threats from fires, droughts, and insect infestations linked to climate change.
What is the USA?
The BMI is a common measure under this category of indicators.
What are Nutrition Indicators?
As of 2023, atmospheric levels of this gas surpassed 420 ppm.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)?
Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges in agriculture due to this environmental stressor.
What are Crop Failures?
This potent greenhouse gas is 25 times more impactful than CO₂ over a 100-year period.
What is Methane?
This South African city saw dietary shifts towards high-fat, low-carb diets among urban populations, leading to increased obesity and diabetes rates post-apartheid.
What is Khayelitsha, Cape Town?