10 striking images of the impact of Climate Change

Climate Change has been wreaking havoc across the globe for quite some time now. Several parts of the world have been feeling the devastating effects of Climate Change in some or the other form. While Antarctica has been melting each day, Brazil drought had resulted in quite a chaos over the South American nation.

On one hand, Climate Change has been giving rain over the driest places on earth, in other areas it has been causing destructive storms and floods. While the issue of Climate Change has remained ignored for a long time, the world can feel the impact of Climate Change.

Check out 10 stunning images shared by renowned photographers on the Instagram account everydayclimatechange

Photo by Ashley Crowther @ashleycrowtherorg for @everydayclimatechange: Water, the source of all life on earth and an intricate part of our lives, not just for survival, but also culturally. The #Himalayas, often regarded as the third pole and are the source of major rivers across #Asia, which include the #Ganges, #Brahmaputra, #Indus, and #Mekong. These rivers are trans-boundary and cross through various nations, ethnicities, religions, and languages. #Climatechange has the potential to exacerbate long-term water insecurity by increasing rates of glacial melt. However, as a spillover effect, it could impact political stability in the region and increase tensions between nations, as future water scarcity issues become an increasing issue between countries and how they allocate and use the water. In these significant cases, water and climate change cannot be viewed as a local problem, but an international one. Governments need to work together diplomatically to mitigate and adapt to all their capacity to this ever increasing threat and avoid worst-case scenarios of conflict. Pictured here high in the Himalaya's #India's Spiti River meeting the Pin River. #everydayclimatechange #globalwarming #climatechangeisreal #nature #environment #water #politics #rivers #everydayasia

A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Apr 4, 2016 at 11:37pm PDT

Photo by Matilde Gattoni @matildegattoni for @everydayclimatechange A house taken over by the sand due to coastal erosion. #coastalerosion #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #africa #blekusu #ghana #globalwarming A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Apr 3, 2016 at 2:35pm PDT

Guest Post: Photo by Sean T. Smith @stsphotovideo for @everydayclimatechange Glaciar (Glacier) Perito Moreno, El Calafate- Argentina. This glacial calving event may be a small drop in a big bucket, but carries an ominous feeling. Current CO2 levels have surpassed the recommended 350ppm levels and have broken into the uncharted 400ppm range, making it harder to believe global temperatures will stay within a sustainable 2ºC. The debate shouldn't be about whether climate change is happening, it should be about the various ways to take action and address it. Note from @everydayclimatechange: Perito Moreno Glacier is one of two glaciers in Patagonia that are actually advancing, not receding. Scientists are not sure but think it may have something to do with how steep the glacier is at the equilibrium line, the spot that divides where the glacier is building versus where more ice melts than accumulates. Still, on balance, Patagonia’s glaciers are receding because of climate change, contributing to sea rise. #patagonia #optoutside #climatechange #sonyalpha #sonya7r2 #argentina #everydayclimatechange #globalwarming #ice #water

A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Apr 2, 2016 at 8:34pm PDT

@matherpeter for @everydayclimatechange A glacial creek trickles out of the mountains in Kluane National Park in Northern Canada. Much of Canada and the world gets clean energy from hydroelectric dams on glacial rivers. As glaciers shrink and disappear over the next 50 years, thousands of rivers are expected to slow to a trickle, and we will be losing not only rivers and the life that depends on them, but also our best source of clean and cheap energy from dams. #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #climateawareness #canada #yukon #kluane #cleanenergy A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 29, 2016 at 6:28pm PDT

photo by Amnon Gutman @gutmanen for @everydayclimatechange. A man doing a workout session during a hot spring day in Brooklyn, NY. The climate of the New York metropolitan region is changing- annual temperatures are hotter, heavy downpour are increasingly frequent, and the sea is rising. These trends, which are also occurring in many parts of the world, are projected to continue and even worsen in the coming decades due to higher concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere caused by burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests for agriculture. @climatechange @globalwarming @climatechangeamerica @climatechangeusa

A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 26, 2016 at 9:04am PDT

Guest Post: Photo by @ggkenya (Georgina Goodwin) for @everydayclimatechange An Amhara farmer and behind him lies his dead horse in fields of barren soil of what should be a wheat or barley ready for harvest. The area, called Washera in Wollo which is 3200m above sea level and 600kms north of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, had both rains fail in 2008 leaving 400 people and 24,000 livestock dead. The farmers’ fields lay barren when at this time they would have been harvesting wheat and barley. Food distributions from USAID and the United Nations' World Food Programme (UNEP) helped stabilise the situation and prevent it from becoming a disaster such as the Ethiopian famine of 1983-5 which affected the inhabitants of today's Eritrea and Ethiopia and which was the worst famine to hit the country in a century. In northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths and was often ascribed to drought though climatic causes and consequences certainly played a part in the tragedy. Assignment documenting climate change and drought in Ethiopia, July 2008. #metaphorimages #onassignment @everydayclimatechange #everydayclimatechange #climatechange #climate #documentary #photojournalism @thephotosociety #TPSAffinity @africanportraits #africanportraits #portraits #Ethiopia #water #drought A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 26, 2016 at 8:14am PDT

Guest Post: Photo by Misha Vallejo @mishavallejo for @everydayclimatechange A dead bird in the now dried out lake Poopó,#Bolivia. The drought has been intensified due to the El Niño phenomenon and global warming. Usually the rainy season starts in November and goes up until April, but in this season it has rained less than five times. ECC shares this from NASA’s Earth Observatory website, "Lake Poopó—once Bolivia’s second-largest lake and an important fishing resource for local communities—has essentially dried up. News reports blame recurrent drought and the diversion of the lake’s water sources for mining and agriculture.” Lake Poopó is a shallow saline lake that last dried up in 1994 but this shows how vulnerable the lake is to small fluctuations in the rain patterns due to El Niño and/or climate change. @everydayclimatechange #everydayclimatechange #everydaybolivia #desert #lake #climatechange #globalwarming #drought #runaphotos #mishavallejo

A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 25, 2016 at 8:32pm PDT

Photo by Ashley Crowther @ashleycrowtherorg for @everydayclimatechange: Kiribati is regularly considered ground zero for the effects of climate change and rising sea levels. Here, a woman and her husband walk through rising seas over the high tide through a coconut tree graveyard. Over time, the rising levels of salt water have killed off the coconut palms, which is an increasing trend throughout the low-lying atolls. After learning about what coconut trees mean to the I-Kiribati people it saddened me to see this happening to something that is intricately related to their culture and lifestyles. Salt-water intrusion is also having considerable effects on the freshwater lens, which many locals describe as impossible to drink due to the high salt content. #asiapacific #pacificislands #climatechange #everydayclimatechange #globalwarming #environment #climatechangeisreal #sealevelrise #kiribati #micronesia A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 21, 2016 at 10:55pm PDT

Photograph by Sean Gallagher @sean_gallagher_photo A Disney-esque theme park is enveloped by a severe sandstorm in the northern Chinese province of Ningxia. The region is increasingly affected by severe desertification which is the gradual transformation of arable and habitable land into desert, usually caused by climate change and/or the improper use of land. As topsoils degrade, winds pick up dirt and sand creating sandstorms that envelop whole regions, bringing daily life to a standstill. In China, nearly 20% of land area is desert. As a result of a combination of poor farming practices, drought and increased demand for groundwater, desertification has become arguably China’s most important environmental challenge. #asia #china #desertification #environment #climatechange @pulitzercenter @natgeocreative

A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 19, 2016 at 2:11am PDT

#FridayRepost Photo by @uletifan A general view of land clearing for palm oil plantation in Central Kalimantan. The Nature Climate Change journal has reported that Indonesia lost 840,000 hectares of natural forest in 2012 compared to 460,000 hectares in Brazil—despite the Indonesian forest being a quarter of the size of the Amazon rainforest. The destruction of forests is driven by the expansion of palm oil plantations as well as pulp & paper factories. This increase in pollution is affecting man and animal alike: from the nearly extinct Sumatran tigers, to traditional communities on the brink of collapse, the country’s fragile ecosystems are under intense pressure. #repost #everydayclimatechange #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #indonesia #deforestation #asia #globalwarming A photo posted by Everyday Climate Change (@everydayclimatechange) on Mar 18, 2016 at 11:09am PDT