This year, Japan's burgeoning ski industry has hit a stumbling block, with unusually low levels of snowfall across the country disappointing visitors and forcing many resorts to shut their doors.
Approximately 40 per cent of the world's population lives along coastlines and millions will be impacted by rising sea levels due to rapid ice melt in polar regions.
Plastic has become a common ingredient in our oceans, and the overwhelming pollution crisis it is causing around the world, is also posing an increasing threat to our already deteriorated climate.
Hundreds of people have been airlifted out of dangerous floodwaters on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, but authorities said Tuesday that others are still stranded at evacuation centers.
