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Climate Change Articles, Information, News and Facts
Popular Climate Change Items
Population & Climate
Population and Climate:
How demographics, including aging and urbanization impact the rate of climate change.
Sea Level Rise Map
Sea Level Rise Map
: A Google map that shows where flooding will occur when sea level rises.
Retreating Glaciers
Rapid Glacier Retreat:
Some types of glaciers can melt at a very high rate.
Human Linked Change
Human-Linked Climate Change
: Many human activities influence climate change.
How Will Climate Change Impact Your Region?
Click a region to see the impacts of climate change.
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Methane Release
Methane From Arctic Seafloor:
Permafrost thaw releases the powerful greenhouse gas.
Arctic Climate Record
Climate Change Data From Arctic Deltas
: Valuable new data from sediment cores.
What Is Earth Science?
What is Earth Science?
The study of Earth and its neighbors in space. Learn more!
Concrete's Carbon
Concrete's Carbon Footprint
: Making concrete produces lots of CO2 but concrete then absorbs CO2 from the air.
Climate & Hydropower
Hydropower & Climate Change:
New climates will require new hydropower strategies.
Forests Store C02
Forests as CO2 Storage Units
: The impact of agricultural deforestation on CO2 levels.
Who Owns The Arctic?
Who Owns The Arctic?
USGS estimates that 25% of all new oil & gas will be found in the Arctic.
Newest Climate Change Items
Sequestration
Carbon Sequestration
is a process that stores CO2 in plants, the ocean or subsurface.
Yosemite Glaciers
Yosemite Glaciers
: There are two active glaciers in Yosemite - but they are slowly melting away.
Coastal Wetland Loss
Most Coastal Wetlands
will disappear this century under a rapid sea-level rise model.
Carbon Cycle
Carbon Cycle Before Humans:
What caused large changes to the carbon cycle 100 MY ago?
Plant Productivity
Plant Growth and Climate:
Warming can increase or decrease plant productivity.
Hawaiian Glaciers
Hawaiian Glaciers and Climate Change:
Processes in the North Atlantic influence Mauna Kea.
Melting NW Passage
Melting Of The Northwest Passage
: Global warming is opening Canad's arctic.
Pangea Rifting
Pangea
rifting produced intense volcanic activity that doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Collier Glacier
Oregon's Largest Glacier is Melting:
Collier Glacier. Was about twice as big in the 1850's.
Antarctic Carbon Flow
Southern Ocean Carbon Flow:
A swift release of carbon dioxide at the end of the ice age?
Alaska Coastal Erosion
Alaska Coastal Erosion
: Erosion rates have doubled in northern Alaska - up to 45 feet per year.
Volcanoes and Climate
A Large Volcanic Eruption in 1809 Launched a Cold Decade
Amazon River Age
How Old is the Amazon River?
Age estimated by sampling sediments.
