{"id":869,"date":"2025-06-09T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:47:56","slug":"adjectives-and-adverbs-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/adjectives-and-adverbs-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjectives and Adverbs in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/\">https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The words CLIMATE CHANGE are ubiquitous. <strong>Climate<\/strong> change, what some call \u201c<strong>extreme<\/strong> weather,\u201d is <strong>ubiquitous<\/strong>. That means that climate change is <strong>global<\/strong>. There is no corner of the globe that can, and that has, escaped the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the world, storms are <strong>more and more frequent<\/strong>. They are also <strong>more and more intense<\/strong>. The oceans are becoming <strong>warmer<\/strong>, and this is harming <strong>sea <\/strong>animals. Glaciers and icebergs are melting <strong>faster and faster<\/strong>, which is causing <strong>sea<\/strong> levels to rise <strong>higher and higher<\/strong>, <strong>more and more quickly<\/strong>. Ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up <strong>earlier<\/strong>, plant and animal ranges have shifted and <strong>growing<\/strong> seasons are becoming <strong>shorter and <\/strong>shorter. In <strong>some<\/strong> places, they are occurring <strong>later and later<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More frequent and (more) intense <\/strong>drought, storms, <strong>heat<\/strong> waves, <strong>rising sea <\/strong>levels, <strong>melting<\/strong> glaciers and <strong>warming<\/strong> oceans can directly harm animals, destroy their habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these changes are making it <strong>harder and harder<\/strong> for people \u2013 whether farmers, fishermen, <strong>agricultural <\/strong>workers &#8211; to make a living. Trees are flowering <strong>sooner<\/strong>. Communities suffer and many individuals pack up and leave their homes and the communities where they grew up, lived and worked. \u00a0As climate change worsens, <strong>dangerous<\/strong> weather events are becoming <strong>more frequent or severe<\/strong>. Cities are rebuilding over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists are seeing, and projecting, the <strong>largest<\/strong> increases in the <strong>frost-free <\/strong>season for <strong>coastal <\/strong>and <strong>high elevatio<\/strong>n areas. The increases will be considerably <strong>smaller<\/strong> if <strong>heat-trapping gas<\/strong> emissions are reduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the <strong>Republican<\/strong> administration of Donald Trump is rolling back programs to help control <strong>climate change, and programs to help people<\/strong> cope with the results of <strong>climate<\/strong> change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Visit the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\">United Nations <\/a>to learn more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/ The words CLIMATE CHANGE are ubiquitous. Climate change, what some call \u201cextreme weather,\u201d is ubiquitous. That means that climate change is global. There is no corner of the globe that can, and that has, escaped the effects of climate change. Around the world, storms are more and more frequent. They are also more and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}