Middle Section Boys Campus
Lahore (2023-2024)
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
The New York Times recently published an eight-part series exploring how climate change is
displacing people around the world. This series travels from a lake that disappeared in Bolivia, to a
Pacific island nation slowly being swallowed by the ocean, to an Alaska town threatened by
increased flooding and erosion. Other articles detail climate change’s effects in China, Africa and the
mainland United States.
Check the given links, read at least any 1 article in detail and write answer of following questions.
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1. Write a brief summary of article.
2. How has global climate change affected the local climate and geography of the region
discussed in your article?
3. How have these changes affected the people living there?
4. How have the people tried to adapt to climate change’s effects?
5. All of these articles include images which were selected to have an impact on the reader.
What do these images show? Which image is the most powerful? Describe it and discuss
what makes it an effective image.
6. Why is this story important for the world to know?