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This same article notes that in the future, Illinois is likely to experience greater hazards from human-caused climate change, including heaving precipitation and higher flooding, large algae blooms on Lake Michigan, a longer growing season, but higher temperatures, which will offset the benefits of the longer season, higher levels of ground ...
Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.
Summary of major biodiversity-related environmental-change categories expressed as a percentage of human-driven change (in red) relative to baseline (blue) It has been estimated that from 1970 to 2016, 68% of the world's wildlife has been destroyed due to human activity. [132] [133] In South America, there is believed to be a 70 percent loss. [134]
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
The General Assembly appropriated up to $14 million to the Illinois EPA for the EV rebate program for the current fiscal year. Lewis said the latest move by the Trump administration is an ...
(The Center Square) – As the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency announces another round of funding for an electric vehicle rebate program, the landscape is changing after a new ...
Environmental issues are harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment. This alphabetical list is loosely divided into causes, effects and mitigation, noting that effects are interconnected and can cause new effects.
PEORIA— The Illinois Office of Tourism and state Department of Natural Resources have set up a Fall Colors Trip Planner that helps identify the best place to look at the fall foliage.. The new ...