Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Estuaries
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
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NASA launches laser to scan Earth's polar ice caps
NASA says it plans to launch an advanced laser instrument which would be used to monitor our planet's melting polar ice.
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New study suggests Pluto started out with a liquid ocean
New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests Pluto started out with a liquid ocean that has been slowly freezing over time.
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Precipitation Types
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...
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Sea levels could rise by over 5 meters by the year 3000 if current
Antarctic ice sheet melting could increase sea levels by over five meters by the year 3000 if current warming trends continue.
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Water Smart: Water in the Air - Quiz
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
Curated Video
Understanding the Destructive Force of Hail
Discover what hail is and how it is formed during thunderstorms. This video discusses the specific conditions needed for hail to form and the differences between hail, snow, and sleet. It also highlights the hazards and damages that...
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Water Smart: Water in the Air - Snow
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Carbon Dioxide
Climate is the average type of weather that a region has. It is defined by temperature and moisture. Proximity to oceans and large mountain ranges defines climate too, depending upon the prevailing wind. While climates change over...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: A Day in the Life of a Senior Research Scientist
Tatiana Vinogradova is a senior research scientist at Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Redondo Beach, CA, where she studies the Arctic from space. Discover more about Tatiana’s inspiration and her day to day work using different types...
Mazz Media
Freezing
This live-action video program is about the word freezing. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word freezing through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
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A Sun Dog is a Mock Sun is a Parhelion
Often, next to the sun, we find very bright patches of color. This describes what they are, and that they are not rainbows.
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Water Smart: Water on Earth - Summary
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
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Weird! Mercury's scorching temps may actually lead to ice.
Mercury’s close orbit around the sun and extreme heat may have helped the planet to generate ice. Writing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists say solar wind may contribute to a chemical process that forms ice in Mercury’s...
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Thwaites Glacier: Eastern Ice shelf could break up within five years
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, which acts as a dam to slow the flow of ice off Antarctica into the ocean, has a series of fractures spanning almost the entire shelf that could break it up within five years.
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Scientists search for life in Antarctica's subglacial lakes
Scientists are drilling into Antartica's ice sheets to study and hopefully find life in subglacial lakes that have been cut off from the atmosphere for millions of year. More than 300 such lakes, buried beneath two to three miles of ice,...
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Hole Punch Cloud
Hole punch cloud is the nickname for a cloud type that forms when a layer of middle or high-level clouds develops a hole partially filled with ice crystals known as fall streaks. Hole punch clouds can happen naturally, but also more...
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Italy covers melting glacier with reflective sheets
Conservationists say about 70 percent of Presena Glacier’s snow is saved over the summer by using protective geotextile sheets.
Curated Video
The Craft and Sport of Ice Skating
Ice skating is a popular winter activity that involves gliding across icy surfaces using specially designed blades attached to footwear. It has a rich history dating back thousands of years, with the first skates made of animal bones....
AllTime 10s
10 Extraterrestrial Discoveries That Could Prove Aliens Exist
Is there life on Mars? Could the newly discovered planets around Trappist-1 be home to aliens? Alltime 10s investigates, with 10 Biggest Discoveries In The Search For Alien Life.
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Water Smart: Water in the Air - Hail
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
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SpaceX awarded contract to launch NASA mission to icy Jupiter moon
In 2024 NASA will use SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch its Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will search for life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Guinness World Records
Largest parade of ice cream vans/trucks
The largest parade of ice cream vans/trucks is 84, and was achieved by The Ice cream Van Dream Team (UK) in Crewe, UK, on 16 October 2018.
Weatherthings
Weather and Seasons: sun, heat, air, wind, rain
A little girl and her grandfather spend a summer afternoon sitting by a pond. The conversation changes from how warm the summer day is to how the pond gets cold and freezes in the winter. The grandfather helps the girl understand how the...