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THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF WATER LEVELS RISING We should be extremely concerned with the water levels rising because the results of water levels rising are lack of salt (in salt water), bleaching coral reefs, and basically animals’ and humans’ environment drastically changing. Changing even to the point where we can no longer adapt to the environment we are forced to live in. Water levels rising are a result of climate change and global warming. As global warming occurs in our atmosphere it warms our atmosphere and thus melts the icebergs and just ice in general so animals in that environment have difficulty surviving. Our immediate concern should be water levels because of the effect it will have on our food chain, among other things. Specifically more serious environmental issues that we need to deal with now in Antarctica, there is flooding, ice layers thinning and melting and a serious increases of water levels. The first thing that we should look at in order to improve our water levels and our environment is the melting of ice caps and ice in general. This should be our major concern because in places like Antarctica the water levels are mostly increasing because of all the water caused by the melting of ice. This is flooding Antarctica and ruining habitats for animals. Eventually what will happen is that the flooding will spread, as global warming increases and our Earth and environment will no longer exist. The main causes of the water levels increasing are global warming and climate change. Climate change is mostly caused by the effects of global warming. And global warming depletes our Ozone Layer so our atmosphere is becoming polluted. Global warming is also the release of green house gases such as Carbon Dioxide and other harmful gases. Global warming comes from human waste and lack of recycling and also lack of our community working together. Global warming is causing water levels to rise because it’s melting ice caps and ice layers but also because global warming affects the climate and climate changes in general affect our waters. Here is an extremely graphic video of Antarctica’s ice caps melting and disintegrating, “[|http://youtube.com/watch?v=AhUcX9AxubM&feature=related”.] Here we see the ice caps slowly melting away, and also foreshadowing the future of humanity, which is slowly becoming destroyed. In order to put an end to global warming we should recycle more and perform more things to preserve our environment and also stop Ozone depletion. Also in places like Sri Lanka, India families and others are suffering from floods and pollution due to the increases in global warming. Flooding is becoming a huge issue and it is all due to water levels rising and climate change. Another one of our main concerns should be taking care of and rebuilding animals’ habitats that have either been destroyed or changed due to water levels rising, global warming or climate change. Animals are forced to change homes and their natural habitats because of lack of food and nutrients. Eventually if we continue to pollute our environment and global warming keeps increasing water levels will continue to rise. Certain places such as Antarctica, Sri Lanka and other places are distressed with flooding issues and the destroying of their homes. Similarly animals are also suffering and slowly the whole food chain will slowly die and our Earth will basically be completely covered in water.