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Global Cycles
Materials including carbon, water, and nutrients cycle through many compartments around the globe. Climate change has altered some of these cycles.
Top layers of the Earth's atmosphere leading to space. Atmospheric gases scatter blue light more than other wavelengths, giving Earth a blue halo when seen from space.
Bloom (2010) Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines. Sinauer Associates.
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Video: TED Talks series - Pavan Sukhdev: Put a...
SUMMARY 16:31 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2011 • POSTED DEC 2011 • TEDGlobal 2011 More »
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Water Cycle - NSF
National Science Foundation shares the insights of many scientists to develop a foundation of climate change education for the general public. The videos in this resource ... More »
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Coral reefs and climate change
Introduction Research on the current and future impacts of human-induced climate chang More »
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Podcast: TED Talks series - Greg Stone: Saving...
SUMMARY 17:16 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED APR 2010 • POSTED NOV 2010 • Mission Blue Voyage More »
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Lab Exercise: Ocean Productivity and...
SUMMARY In this lab, students learn how to use actual observational (chemical) data to investigate the role of ocean biology in redistributing nutrients between the surface... More »
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HOW SUCCESS WORKS: Escaping the Pesticide Trap...
SUMMARY Eco Tipping Points: Cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India had descended into a seemingly hopeless abyss of escalating pesticide dependence and debt.... More »
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Video: TED Talks series - Jeremy Jackson: How...
SUMMARY 18:19 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED APR 2010 • POSTED MAY 2010 • Mission Blue Voyage More »
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Activity: What are the causes and effects of...
SUMMARY Activity takes five to six 45-minute class periods for first investigation. Selected for the CLEAN Collection. The activity description was developed by CLEAN... More »
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Tracking the Global Carbon Cycle
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas in terms of concentration and effect. It is responsible for about one-third of the global warming... More »
Atmospheric science
Last Updated on 2013-04-22 at 17:45
Atmospheric science is the umbrella term for the study of the atmosphere — the blanket of air covering the Earth. It is a relatively new discipline that is concerned... More »
Case: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Tribes in...
Last Updated on 2013-04-11 at 17:32
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This is a clicker case is the second of a two-part series that is an introduction to potential impacts of Global Climate change on the of the Tribal Lands in... More »
Colorado River Supply - NCSE-NASA
Last Updated on 2013-03-19 at 16:09
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This curriculum module looks at climate change impacts that affect us locally right now. We will study the data, the possible consequences to various user groups,... More »
Forests as a Carbon Sink
Last Updated on 2013-01-08 at 12:06
Forests as a carbon sink are often overlooked as a major source of carbon removal from the atmosphere, a process known as carbon sequestration. Conversely, deforestation,... More »
Coral bleaching
Last Updated on 2012-12-30 at 19:05
Coral bleaching is the reduction of intracellular endosymbionts in living coral reefs either via loss or expulsion of algal pigmentation. The symbiotic relationship between... More »
Hydrological Variability and Change
Last Updated on 2012-10-31 at 00:49
This article is drawn from Abrupt Climate Change A report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, U.S. Geological... More »
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