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Grinnell Glacier shrinkage
The problem with climate change explained by Bill McKibben
climate change: timeline iceberg Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan deciduous trees
Long-term data sets reveal increased concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere
precession
David Attenborough: An explorer's life
Join a climate-change research team collecting samples from the bottom of Greenland's Arctic lakes
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Combination shot of Grinnell Glacier taken from the summit of Mount Gould, Glacier National Park, Montana in the years 1938, 1981, 1998 and 2006.
Pop Quiz: 18 Things to Know About Global Warming
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rain. Child in the rain, wearing a rain coat, under a yellow umbrella. April Showers weather climate rain storm water drops
April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs
Cyclone winds in aerial of clouds. (hurricane; storm; wind) This image is most likely digitally altered.
Climate Change
Iceland, Glacier lagoon (Jokulsarlon)
Winter Weather Words Quiz
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A timeline of important 20th- and 21st-century carbon emission/science dates. climate change, infographic. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
Timeline of Climate Change
Brown layer of Los Angeles smog; photo taken on November 10, 2016.(California, environment, smog)
What's the Difference Between Global Warming and Climate Change?
Cracked ice in Arctic Ocean (ice floe; ice flow; ice formation; melting ice; glacier)
Is Climate Change Real?
High-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image taken by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station (Sept. 2010).
Is the Number of Hurricanes Increasing?
Polar bear leaping among ice floes at Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway, the Arctic. Sea ice climate change mammal jump global warming
A Recent History of Climate Change
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solar eclipse, sun, moon, astronomy, space
How Do You Tell the Difference Between Total, Annular, Solar, and Lunar Eclipses?
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
Solar eclipse of the sun.
The Sun Was Eaten: 6 Ways Cultures Have Explained Eclipses
Coffee beans after roasting.
How Is Coffee Decaffeinated?
Solar Eclipse, Eclipse, Solar Flare, Outer Space, Astronomy
What Causes Lunar and Solar Eclipses?
In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.
6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

An important new area of research, abrupt climate change, has developed since the 1980s. This research has been inspired by the discovery, in the ice core records of Greenland and Antarctica, of evidence for abrupt shifts in regional and global climates of the past. These events, which have also been documented in ocean and continental records, involve sudden shifts of Earth’s climate system from one equilibrium state to another. Such shifts are of considerable scientific concern because they can reveal something about the controls and sensitivity of the climate system. In particular, they point out nonlinearities, the so-called “tipping points,” ...(100 of 12125 words)

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