I'm sure you've noticed it too. Brutal winters or too mild ones. Summers that turn into a real hell. Relentless droughts, bigger and more frequent floods. The Earth seems to have lost its balance, and human activity appears at the center. Negotiations fail and demands grow, while glaciers, lakes, and rivers disappear. Below, we share fifteen of the most extreme examples associated with climate change…

It's clear that the conflict goes far beyond a straw or a plastic bag. It's generational, it's economic, and above all, it's ideological. Even the very expression "climate change" is met with hostility... but its effects are real no matter if you don't believe in them. The images we're about to share after this paragraph are only fifteen, yet they forcefully show an acceleration of the environmental crisis in the last two decades.

Pedersen Glacier, Alaska

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
The glacier still exists, but it is a shadow of what it was 100 years ago (Science Photo Library/EAST NEWS)

Victoria Falls

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
This waterfall on the Zambezi River is suffering its worst drought in a century (Picture Alliance/EAST NEWS - ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP/EAST NEWS)

Kathar, Punjab

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
Ten years of deforestation (WWF Pakistan on Instagram)

Venice

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
St. Mark's Basilica, reached by floods (Xinhua News/East News - Sergey Ashmarin/Wikimedia Commons)

Okjökull Glacier

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
Officially declared dead in 2018, last year they installed a plaque in commemoration... and as a warning (NASA)

Great Barrier Reef

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
The percentage of new coral has fallen drastically, and even deeper changes are expected in the region (Ryan McMinds/Flickr - Coral Reef Studies)

Muir Glacier, Alaska

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
It is still there, but its retreat does not stop. One hundred years of difference in the image, 1904-2004. (USGS/Exclusivepix Media/EAST NEWS)

Aculeo Lagoon, Chile

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
Between April and May 2018, it completely dried up (CHRISTIAN MIRANDA/AFP/East News)

Theewaterskloof Dam

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
Its water crisis could leave Cape Town without water (Olga Ernst/Wikimedia Commons - Werner Bayer/Flickr)

The Ganges River

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
Relentless floods and extreme poverty, a lethal combination (Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons - SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/East News)

Lake Urmia, Iran

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
The lake has lost an average of one meter of water per year (Ali Entezari/Wikimedia Commons - Amir Sadeghi/Wikimedia Commons)

The Amazon

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
The fires of last year need no introduction (Phil P Harris/Wikimedia Commons - JOAO LAET/AFP/East News)

Mississippi River

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
$12.5 billion in damages (Quadcities2012/Wikimedia Commons - Quad City Times/Associated Press/East News)

Grinnell Glacier, Montana

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
Another worrying case of retreat (T.J. Hileman/Wikimedia Commons - Blase Reardon/Wikimedia Commons)

Lake Oroville, California

Climate Change in Images: 15 Photos That Prove Its Impact
The latest droughts managed to reduce the lake to 39 percent of its capacity

Source: Bright Side