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Videos
Is it just me, or did spring come early this year?
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Living organisms influence the cycling of carbon and oxygen through the environment.
Video: Created and produced by QA International. © QA International, 2010. All rights reserved. www.qa-international.com
Cloud seeding can produce an extra 5 to 15 percent of precipitation over the course...
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Learn about carbon dioxide and its relationship to warming conditions at Earth's...
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Sir David Attenborough might have the most-recognizable voice in the world.
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Dr. Gavin Schmidt of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) discussing the...
Video: GSFC/NASA
Learn about flood control in the Netherlands.
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The perceptible warming of Earth over the past 150 years has been caused by an increase...
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Learn how global warming affects the migratory patterns of birds.
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Learn about the steady decline in levels of dissolved oxygen in the ocean, a phenomenon...
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Overview of the effects of global warming on coral, including those off the coast...
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The effects of global warming on Sweden's reindeer.
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An overview of the role greenhouse gases play in modifying Earth's climate.
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Scientists believe that human activity is causing Earth's air to become warmer through...
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Learn about the impact of climate change on the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana,...
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Learn about researchers studying melting permafrost on mountains in order to predict...
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Overview of the impact on Earth of an increase in global average temperature.
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Images
A series of photographs of the Grinnell Glacier taken from the summit of Mount Gould...
1938-T.J. Hileman/Glacier National Park Archives, 1981 - Carl Key/USGS, 1998 - Dan Fagre/USGS, 2006 - Karen Holzer/USGS
The greenhouse effect on Earth. Some incoming sunlight is reflected by Earth's atmosphere...
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Since 1750 the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has increased...
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Map of annual carbon dioxide emissions by country in 2014.
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Factories that burn fossil fuels help to cause global warming.
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The present-day surface hydrologic cycle, in which water is transferred from the...
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Carbon is transported in various forms through the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and...
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Smoldering remains of a plot of deforested land in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil.
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The Keeling Curve, named after American climate scientist Charles David Keeling,...
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A column of gas and ash rising from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 12,...
David H. Harlow/U.S.Geological Survey
Twelve solar X-ray images obtained by Yohkoh between 1991 and 1995. The solar coronal...
G.L. Slater and G.A. Linford; S.L. Freeland; the Yohkoh Project
Monthly satellite measurements of total solar irradiance since 1980 comparing NASA's...
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The layers of Earth's atmosphere, with a yellow line showing the air temperature...
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Earth's axis of rotation itself rotates, or precesses, completing one circle every...
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During the second half of the 20th century and early part of the 21st century, global...
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To understand and explain the complex behaviour of Earth's climate, modern climate...
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Projected changes in mean surface temperatures by the late 21st century according...
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The greatest increase in near-surface air temperature is occurring over the polar...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Projected changes in mean precipitation by the late 21st century according to the...
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NASA image showing locations on Antarctica where temperatures had increased between...
GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio/NASA
Thermohaline circulation transports and mixes the water of the oceans. In the process...
Anopheles mosquito, carrier of the malarial parasite.
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Climate stripes showing the change in global temperatures from 1850 to 2022.
© Professor Ed Hawkins/University of Reading (https://showyourstripes.info/)
The orange, pink, green, and purple areas are those that were covered by ice sheets...
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Projected surface temperature changes from the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
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Graph of the predicted increase in Earth's average surface temperature according...
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The global average surface temperature range for each year from 1861 to 2000 is shown...
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A timeline of important developments in climate change.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Interactives
Annual near-surface global average temperatures have shown a marked increase over...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Global average sea levels have risen roughly 9 inches (about 23 cm) since 1880.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Yearly average July temperatures continue to diverge from long-term mean July temperatures...
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Podcasts
“The Incredible Shrinking World of the Polar Bear”
John Rafferty of Encyclopædia Britannica discusses the polar bear, a mammal that...
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