23 Numbers That Explain The State Of Planet Earth In 2019
99%: The chance that 2019 winds up in the top five hottest years ever recorded. According to NOAA data, this year will be either the third or second hottest year in human history.
0.95C: How much warmer July was compared to the 20th-century average temperature for that month, making it the hottest July ever recorded in human history.
5: Number of new islands discovered in the Russian Arctic due to melting glaciers.
259,816 acres: Amount of land burned so far due to wildfires in California this year.
10,000 square kilometers: Amount of land in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest cleared due to deforestation between January and August of this year.
1,000: Number of people who died, at the most conservative estimate, due to devastating flooding in April in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone Idai, the worst disaster to hit the region in 20 years.
1m: Number of land and marine species that could become extinct due to human actions, unless “transformative change” is made across local, national, and global levels, according to a report released by the UN in May.
99.8: Percentage of endangered species in the United States that will find it difficult to adapt to a warming world.