climate change: Media
Videos
Learn more about the problem of climate change in this interview with Bill McKibben.
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Is it just me, or did spring come early this year?
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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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Learn how scientists collect lake bed sediment samples in Greenland for investigations...
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An exploration of the benefits and risks of using geoengineering to combat climate...
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A time-lapse representation of Earth changing through geologic time, from the late...
Video: Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
Evidence of Earth's glacial past.
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The effects of climate change on marine ecosystems.
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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 rich biodiversity in the waters off Indonesia, as well as conservation...
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Studying fossil coral to uncover information about Earth's history.
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An overview of the role greenhouse gases play in modifying Earth's climate.
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The effects of climate change on the Himalayas.
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Learn how sea level is measured.
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Learn about the effects of overfishing and climate change on the world's fish supply.
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Overview of the effects of global warming on coral, including those off the coast...
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The perceptible warming of Earth over the past 150 years has been caused by an increase...
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Overview of the Sahara, including a discussion of the impact of climate change on...
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Scientists on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, are monitoring penguins to gather...
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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
A timeline of important developments in climate change.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Tourist boat in front of a massive iceberg near the coast of Greenland.
Paul Zizka/Visit Greenland (Visitgreenland.com)
Drought-resistant plants growing in the Repetek Preserve in the southeastern Karakum...
© Rodger Jackman/Oxford Scientific Films Ltd.
Deciduous forest in fall coloration, Wasatch Mountains, Utah.
Dorothea W. Woodruff/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The Sun as imaged in extreme ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar and Heliospheric...
NASA
A column of gas and ash rising from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 12,...
David H. Harlow/U.S.Geological Survey
The greenhouse effect on Earth. Some incoming sunlight is reflected by Earth's atmosphere...
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Mixed evergreen and hardwood forest cover the slopes of the Adirondack Mountains...
Jerome Wyckoff
Surface reflectance (albedo) of solar energy under different patterns of land use....
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Sea-ice loss in the Arctic since the end of the 20th century has lowered...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Tropical forests and deforestation in the early 21st century.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Abandoned farmstead showing the effects of wind erosion in the Dust Bowl, Texas county,...
USDA Photo
A diagram shows the position of Earth at the beginning of each season in the Northern...
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During years when the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is in its positive phase,...
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The Younger Dryas event was characterized by a substantial and relatively sudden...
The orange, pink, green, and purple areas are those that were covered by ice sheets...
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Europe, like North America, had four periods of glaciation. Successive ice caps reached...
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Projected changes in mean surface temperatures by the late 21st century according...
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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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Climate stripes showing the change in global temperatures from 1850 to 2022.
© Professor Ed Hawkins/University of Reading (https://showyourstripes.info/)
Climate stripes showing the temperature changes in Australia from 1888 to 2022.
© Professor Ed Hawkins/University of Reading (https://showyourstripes.info/)
Climate stripes showing the temperature changes in Canada from 1881 to 2022.
© Professor Ed Hawkins/University of Reading (https://showyourstripes.info/)
The primary drivers of biodiversity loss are influenced by the exponential growth...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
Interactives
Yearly average July temperatures continue to diverge from long-term mean July temperatures...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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
Podcasts
“Plants on Fire”
Melissa Petruzzello of Encyclopædia Britannica and Emily Booth of Temple University...
“The Incredible Shrinking World of the Polar Bear”
John Rafferty of Encyclopædia Britannica discusses the polar bear, a mammal that...
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