10. One hundred years later, the shortage of resources, environmental pollution, global climate change and other issues. Melting ice in Antarctica will cause sea levels to rise, and the Antarctic ice sheet is falling apart. The number of various penguins on the entire island in northeastern Antarctica is decreasing. In the 1971 penguin population survey, the total number of penguin pairs on the island was 122,550, but now there are only 52,786 pairs left. The number, which is close to 60%, has dropped sharply, and is now dying out at a faster rate. And this is precisely a series of problems caused by the rise in global temperature. Sea level rise has important socio-economic impacts, which will exacerbate disaster risks in coastal areas, such as damage to ecosystems, erosion of land, and strengthening of storm surges.
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