Human Impact Readers and Passages

Heat domes pose significant health risks as our bodies struggle to maintain a safe temperature in extreme heat. Dehydrat...

This passage delves into the phenomenon of coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. It explains how rising water tempe...

This passage educates children about human contributions to climate change. It explains how burning fossil fuels for ene...

Ocean acidification occurs when carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, forming carbonic acid and lowering the ocean's pH....

Plastic pollution is a major threat to oceans and marine life. Millions of tons of plastic waste enter the oceans yearly...

Deforestation is the large-scale removal of forests, primarily caused by human activities like agriculture, logging, and...

Rare earth minerals are critical for smartphones, computers, and renewable energy. Mining them has environmental impacts...

Snow leopards face many threats today. People are building roads and farms in their mountain homes. Some hunt them for f...

The Dust Bowl was an environmental disaster in the 1930s. Farmers had removed too much grass to plant crops. When drough...