Holland (10/14/09) - People in Amsterdam are living in houses that float. Why are they doing this? Because the water level is rising in Amsterdam and covering up the land.
Global warming is causing the ice in the North pole and South pole to melt and make the sea level rise. This is bad for places like Amsterdam because they are next to the sea anyway and not very high and the city does not have a lot of space for people to live in.
So people in Amsterdam just went ahead and built their houses on floating platforms.
Questions:
1) Where did this story take place?
2) When did this story take place?
3) Why are people building houses that float?
4) Why is the sea water level rising?
5) Describe one of the floating houses you saw in the video.
Info and video from yahoo news.
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