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On this page you will find plenty of information of the threats to the environment are. We shall show you this by giving maps each one with a theme such as where are forests being cut down the most. The maps are colour coded with red, orange and yellow meaning that that country is polluting a lot. The green countries are those who are not in the top few countries and therefore have an impact which is lower than other countries. We hope you find the information you want and you can always give us new ideas for maps using the chat.
This first map shows the amount of carbon dioxide per person who lives there. In other words you divide the amount of carbon dioxide the country produces by the amount of people who live there. Naturally countries which produce lots of co2 but at the same time have a large population will be less high up the chart than countries which produce less but have a lower population. An example of this is China and America. America produces less co2 but has a fraction of their population and so every person living there will produce more in this way of counting it. If this map showed most co2 per country America would be behind China. There are twenty red, orange and yellow countries in this map.
This next map shows the amount of forest being cut down. Obviously countries with more forest in them will be higher because there is more to chop down. In other places there were trees everywhere but they were cut down possibly centuries ago. What this map shows is the amount of trees the country is currently losing at this moment. The green areas are mostly where there are less trees to be cut down. In Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Columbia, Peru and a few other countries is where the Amazon rainforest is. This rainforest is home to most of the plants and animals in the world but is being burnt down for cattle and palm oil. This is one of the biggest threats for the environment. Companies which use palm oil for their products are trying to use sustainable palm oil ( palm oil which is planted without burning down rainforests for room) but not all of them. This is the reason that nearly all of South America is in red. There are also other rainforests in the world but none as big as this one. There are some in India an d Africa and these too are being burnt for room. In this map there are only red and green countries because so many acres of forests are being cut down it is hard to see where there are more being burned. I would however say that countries in South America and a few in Africa are cutting down a lot. This might be because these are targets in deforestation or they simply have more forests there to be burned or choped.
This map shows the amount of waste a country is producing. Countries producing a lot of waste can harm the environment in many ways. Some of these are: food waste can produce methane, plastic waste can end up in the ocean which in turn might acidify the oceans or end up in the stomach of a sea creature and like the previous one waste can also end up on land as litter and that might also take the life of an animal which though it was food and then either got poisoned or choked on whatever they ate. So minimising waste can not only possibly help biodiversity but also air quality which are two key things if we ever save the environment.
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