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NASA | Operation IceBridge Flies the Ice Caps
Ice caps are simply small versions of ice sheets, measuring in at a maximum area of 50,000 square kilometers (about 19,000 square miles). It's their small and thin stature that makes ice caps more prone to melt in a warming Arctic....
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NASA | IceBridge Flies High over Both Poles
For the first time NASA’s Operation IceBridge is flying simultaneous missions over both the Arctic and Antarctic, on smaller, faster aircraft. These campaigns and aircraft represent both a unique opportunity for measuring polar ice, and...
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NASA | A Warming World
This short video announces the launch of the A Warming World Web page on NASAs Global Climate Change Web site: A Warming World features videos, images, articles and interactive visuals that discuss rising global temperatures and the...
Visual Learning Systems
Life Through Time: Life in the Cenozoic Era
This fascinating program takes students on a journey through time as the history of life on Earth is explored. From the dawn of life to the existence of advanced vertebrate animals, each of the major periods of life are investigated....
The Wall Street Journal
How to Improve Reporting
Companies are being pressed to report in greater detail on their sustainability policies and performance, but face multiple frameworks and often-incomplete data. Leaders from Goodyear and Diageo explain their approaches.
Science360
Reconstructing Climate History - How Do We Know?
Why is it important to reconstruct the long history of the Earth's climate, and how can we do that?
Science360
Wildfires jeopardize future forests!
As wildfires continue to rage in California, a future with fewer forests is very real according to findings from a new study on the resilience of Rocky Mountain forests. A team lead by Colorado State University, and University of Idaho,...
The Wall Street Journal
In Search of Alternative Protein’s Inflection Point
A panel of U.S. agricultural producers discuss their biggest challenges, as the sector grapples with the uncertainty of a post-pandemic economic recovery.
NASA
Rising Waters: A Warmer World
Earth’s global sea levels are rising – and are doing so at an accelerating rate. Waters in the ocean are expanding as they absorb massive amounts of heat trapped by greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Glaciers and ice sheets are...
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New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA's ICESat-2
Hundreds of meltwater lakes hide deep beneath the expanse of Antarctica’s ice sheet. With a powerful laser altimeter system in space, NASA’s Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is helping scientists “see” under the ice....
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NASA Studies an Unusual Arctic Warming Event
Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as...
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NASA | OIB Flights South 2014: A Sea Ice Mystery
Where’s it coming from? With global average temperatures rising, it would be natural to assume that total quantities of sea ice would be falling. But it’s not. Scientists have begun to observe sea ice increases around Antarctica, and the...
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NASA | NPPy: Big Planet, Little Bear
NPP is the prototype of the next generation weather satellites, named JPSS. NPP has five instruments on board and will continue the legacy of existing weather satellites like Terra and Aqua. NPP will deliver critical data not only for...
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NASA | NPP: Why another Earth observing satellite?
NASA's NPP mission will continue collecting critical climate data to help scientist unravel the mysteries of climate change. This fun interactive mission overview video featuring TV meteorologists Topper Shutt (WUSA9), Veronica Johnson...
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NASA | NOAA's GOES-O Ready To Launch
This video shows a quick tour and overview of the facilities where the GOES-O satellite was built and tested prior to launch. GOES-O was integrated by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems in El Segundo, CA and then transported to the...
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NASA | Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
This guided tour of the area surrounding McMurdo Station in Antarctica uses the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). It's a great way to experience the frozen continent without any risk of frostbite.
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NASA | IPCC Projections of Temperature and Precipitation in the 21st Century
New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show how climate models -- those used in the new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice 101
NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA's role in monitoring the cryosphere. Learn More: Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009
It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate change. This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our...
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NASA | MAVEN Science Teaser
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), set to launch in 2013, will explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. Scientists will use MAVEN data to determine the role...
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NASA | EPIC Observations Pouring In
It’s a fresh view of Earth. Less than a year after its launch on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), NASA’s onboard camera is taking images of the entire sunlit side of Earth every two hours.
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NASA | Earth Science Week | What are the Consequences ...
Earth's climate system has been remarkably stable over the last 20,000 years or so. Human civilization developed in that time span, and our world's average temperature warmed by about 5 degrees C to the temperature it is today. This fact...
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Flying Alaska’s Glaciers with Operation IceBridge
After the launch of ICESat-2 in 2018, Operation IceBridge mostly came to a close. However, Operation IceBridge Alaska continues to work in the field studying and recording ice thickness in the region. Scientists from University Alaska...
Maddie Moate
We met Boaty McBoatface! Tour of the RRS Sir David Attenborough | Let's Go Live Maddie & Greg #87
We met Boaty McBoatface! Tour of RRS Sir David Attenborough for COP26 | Let's Go Live with Maddie & Greg