Athabasca Glacier in Canada: is the most famous glacier in North America, and the largest glacial spot between the Canadian Rockies, and melts ice river gradually for more than 125 years due to global warming, and lost half its size so far, and helped to shrink an area equivalent to miles, with an average of between 6.6 and 9.8 feet per year.
Mongolian plains: famous for its extensive areas of pasture, and intensive and low population, which is threatened disappear area because of mineral exploration operations, but the rapid growth of the economy of Mongolia, threatening the greenery there.
Karnali River in Nepal: Being Asian Tibetan Plateau through the Himalayas in India, on the 315-mile distance, which makes it the longest and largest river in Nepal, but the flow of water abundant made him a source of hydroelectric power by the government there, which seeks to attract investors to establish a dam project huge, and in the case of construction will generate electricity to be exported to China and India, but it Satms river landmarks.
Galapagos Islands: It is an archipelago extends over 620 miles off the coast of Ecuador, and home to a huge number of rare animals species that live on these islands just below the other in the world and is listed on the World Heritage sites endangered since 2007, although they are experiencing a rise in the number of tourists increased by 12% per annum, due to it isolated from the ground islands formed by volcanoes.
Ecuadorian Amazon: It is a vast stretch of sub-tropical forests, which most is the tributaries of the Amazon River in South America, but they are threatened disappear because of trends Ecuadorian authorities to destroy those forests for the purpose of extracting the oil.
National Glacier Park: Located in the state of Montana, was founded in 1850 on an area of 4101 square kilometers, and consists of mountainous areas, and are home to tens of ice cream and hundreds of lakes and thousands of animal species, but they are threatened disappear with ice melt due to global warming.
Maldives: It is a group of islands (Archipelago), the Indian Ocean, rise by 5 feet just above the sea surface, and includes thousands of reef islands and coral distributed on what area of 56 thousand square miles, but it threatened to sink the entire 100 years, if continued sea level to rise as a result of climate change caused by global warming.
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