Published 14:57 IST, January 18th 2019

Viral '10 year challenge' put to some really good use

Some environmentalists have put the viral #10YearChallenege to some good use amid people bombarding our social media feeds by comparing the latest pictures of themselves with the ones taken 10 years ago.

Reported by: Tanmay Patange
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Some environmentalists have put viral #10YearChallenge to some good use amid people bombarding our social media feeds by comparing latest pictures of mselves with ones taken 10 years ago. What started on Facebook caught on instantly across social media, and it almost instantly took different forms.

Most people were mostly keen on checking out how y have changed over years or in most cases how y still look same even after a dece. But re were many who took on #10YearChallenge and gave it a whole new meaning. Some nature loving people quickly acted on viral trend to remind everyone how our planet has changed in last 10 years and in this case, sly, two ims looked same.

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year 2019 alrey shares a piece of b news about World Ocean. Although last year was ocean's warmest one on record, according to scientists, oceans are heating up 40 per cent faster than previously assumed. If that wasn't eugh, as per research, Antarctic Ice Sheet is vanishing nearly six times faster than it used to be during 1980s. With that in mind, some environmental scientists have come up with idea of Earth's own "10-year challenge."

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Glaciers have been impacted most in last 10 years, leaving visually tense effects of a rise in aver temperature of Earth's climate system. That's essentially what scientists call "Global warming." As a result, se climatic #10YearChallenege comparisons are mostly about melting glaciers. Melting glaciers are t a good sign since y have abilities to cause rapid sea-level rise around world. If that happens, for example, sea level in South Florida could rise by 10 to 30 feet by 2100. See for yourself:

 

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14:50 IST, January 18th 2019