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Polar Countdown: 50 years gone cause: global warming

North or South Pole

Led ice caps melting due to the greenhouse effect causing global warming, has resulted in the polar ice cap melts, directly impact the local ecology, existing polar biology may face extinction crisis-by-case basis.

In addition to losing the polar these two ecological treasures, iceberg melt also makes global sea-level rise, many low-lying areas of the country, Tuvalu, Nauru will in a few years Mey.

Italy: Venice Countdown: 40 years gone cause: ground sinking sea-level rise of the city's famous water, near Venice, may in turn be poetic art.

Years of flooding continued erosion of the soil, resulting in Venice strata sinking 0.5 cm each year, if you can no longer be where he is expected to Venice in 2050 will be completely Mey.

Maldives Countdown: 50 years gone cause: earthquake and tsunami

Maldives

In the Indian Ocean waters, coral reefs with 1192 islands scattered among them, constitute such as Garland beautiful shape in General; mdash mdash; this is the name of the Maldives, is Hindi Garland, white sandy beaches, limpid sea, colourful coral reefs mdash mdash;; Maldives has created a unique tropical ambience, and ever-changing sea scenery, but also many diving in swarms, won the final of the Fairyland on Earth.

Australia: great barrier reef Countdown: 12 years gone cause: climate change, overexploitation, man-made damage.

Australia: great barrier reef

The global warming phenomenon, overexploitation, capturing fish and serious marine pollution, making drastic changes in the ecological environment, coral barrier reef of jazz will therefore gradually albinism and death, if you don't try to remedy the situation, it is expected that by 2020 it may disappear.

Amazon Countdown: 12 years away reason: people-overexploitation

The Amazon rainforest

Nearly 100 years, since human rampantly, tropical jungles and forests are quickly vanishing, the reasons for including excessive fire tilling, farmland diversion, excessive grazing, fuelwood excess access to, improper commercial timber felling and forest fires, etc.

It is expected that by 2020, 90% of the world's rain forests will disappear.

France: La THAON cave mural Countdown: 15 years away reason: fungi causing spalling murals

France: La THAON cave paintings

As a result of global warming as well as tourists often access, gradually changing the climate of the caves, Moss, fresco also gradually shedding.

France Government therefore started to limit the flow of tourists, week opening only 5 x 5 people in and out, and stay for less than 35 minutes to protect this great world heritage.

Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro Countdown: 12 years gone cause: Glacier melting

Africa: Kilimanjaro

As a result of global warming, ice and snow has melted, the expected gradually to 2020, Mount Kilimanjaro is bald, pooling of melting snow formed by the rivers dry up, animals and plants will also result in death or migration of his Office, the direct impact of national public

Garden ecology and tourism. Currently, environmentalists have started to put pressure on, hoping to make industrial countries reduce emissions, reduce pollution and environmental damage.

Egypt: Luxor Temple Countdown: 42 years away from the Nile water increases erosion, treasures stolen rampant.

Egypt Luxor Temple

Rise of the River, is a threat to the Temple of Luxor region.

Because of the area near farmers used extensive irrigation, causing the Nile water rising water levels, plus the area close to the sea, in the last 10 years, more and more severe degree of architectural salinization, several thousand-year history of the temple group is being constantly erosion, salinization, while also being eroded column and statue of pigments.

Switzerland ice Countdown: 42 years gone cause: global warming, rising temperature.

Switzerland ice

To the world famous ice landscape of Switzerland, in the past 20 years, as more and more hot Earth temperature, evaporation, Switzerland ice start area is less 15%, in the territory of hundreds of the outer edge of the glacier begins to melt and the collapse of a regression in each of the 3-5 meters, length and more short, it is expected that by the turn of the century may disappear.

Switzerland Tourism Bureau take the ice melted, simply put the ice melted State discharged into the travel itinerary.

Nepal: Sagarmatha National Park Countdown: 12 years gone cause: flood outbreak

Nepal: Sagarmatha National Park

As global warming, melting ice and snow gradually into the glacier lakes, snow even has caused a minor disaster, experts believe that the future may also cause more floods, it is expected that in 2020, Nepal Sagarmatha National Park will lose it's beautiful scenery.

Peru: Machu Picchu Countdown: 50 years later dies cause: Foundation sinking slump, the sabotage.

Peru: Machu Picchu

Here's the geological structure, plus the tourists of the sabotage, stone building, wear sites face Foundation move, settlement of the crisis, may cause a small earthquake, causing the disintegration of the whole city fell into the cliff, really became everyone can not find the lost city.

The Government of Peru presented a $ 70 million pounds of emergency rescue plan, a strong foundation of Machu Picchu; the number of visitors per day limit of 500 people.

The Mogao grottoes in Dunhuang, China: Countdown: 50 years gone cause: tourists damaged

The Mogao grottoes in Dunhuang, China:

Buddhist art resort Mogao grottoes, has housed a fresco 492, statue for viewing of caves, Cave of the regular open for sightseeing around 40 seat, bodhisattva, Princes, flying, the students, the variable, the dependent person, etc., can be said to be the ultimate classic Buddhist art.

The year 2000, at the annual influx of more than 30 million tourists into heat, moisture, fumes, coupled with the hands touch, have accelerated the cave paintings of speed. The Government has begun to restrict access by day and time, the number of tourists to enable people to minimize the damage

Middle East: Dead Sea Countdown: 20 years gone cause: extrusion plate motion, fast evaporation of moisture.

Middle East: the dead sea

In Jordan, Israel and Palestine at the junction of the dead sea, in fact, not the sea, is a landlocked

Salt Lake. The high salinity in water but makes here has extraordinary buoyancy, let dry ducks can enjoy floating in the water sinking of uploaded fun Dead Sea Black mud and dead sea salt is a rare beauty. Because of the Arabian Peninsula, the African continent and the European mainland long plate extrusion, making the dead sea area, plus the greenhouse effect caused by global warming, the rapid evaporation of moisture in the dead sea, facing the fate dry up.

South America: Patagonia region

South America: Patagonia region

Located in the South American continent, the southernmost Patagonia Icefield, is the largest outside except Antarctica's ice covered areas.

Here the glacier is also emerging in recent years large collapse phenomenon.