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Slims River
Kaskawulsh Glacier
Kaskawulsh River
muchlower. Climate change caused the rapid melting of
the Kaskawulsh Glacier.
WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
Climate is the average weather of a certain place.
Earth’s climate is always changing. But in recent
decades, its temperature has been rising. The top four
warmest years on record were from 2015 to 2018.
Scientists have known since the 1960s that human
activity has added greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
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