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A video depicts all seven continents on Earth converging over 250 million years into one new supercontinent called Aurica.
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Exploring the Climates of E...
Exploring the Climates of Earth's Future Supercontinent with a NASA Supercomputer
By comparing bee data to satellite imagery, NASA research scientist Wayne Esaias uses honey bees as tiny data collectors to understand how climate change is affecting pollination and plants.
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Video: Sting of Climate Change
This view of Earth from space is a fusion of science and art, drawing on data from multiple satellite missions and the talents of NASA scientists and graphic artists.
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Twin Blue Marbles
Twin Blue Marbles
Video: Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row.
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NASA studies an unusual Arc...
NASA studies an unusual Arctic warming event
Along Greenland's western coast, a small field of glaciers surrounds Baffin Bay. This image was acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite on September 3, 2000. It is a false-color composite image made using near-infrared, red and blue wavelengths. 
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Baffin Bay, Greenland
Baffin Bay, Greenland
A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. This image was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite on October 22, 2000. It is a false-color composite image made using near infrared, green, and red wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor's panchromatic band.
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Terkezi Oasis
Terkezi Oasis
This documentary traces the efforts of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to measure greenhouse gases.
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JPL and the Space Age: Sky ...
JPL and the Space Age: Sky High (Video)
The past decade has been the hottest ever recorded since global temperature records began 150 years ago. This video discusses the impacts of the sun's energy, Earth's reflectance and greenhouse gasses on global warming.
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The past decade has been th...
Video: Temperature Puzzle
Pliocene CO2 graphic - climate.nasa.gov
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Pliocene CO2 graphic - clim...
Graphic: Carbon dioxide hits new high
Animation showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.
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Video: Antarctic Ice Mass L...
Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2023
Visualization that captures sea surface temperature anomalies around the world from 1982 to 2017.
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Sea surface temperature ano...
Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017
A visualization shows ocean currents circulating Pine Island Bay and flowing under Pine Island Glacier.
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Video: Ocean Flows Under Pi...
Video: Ocean Flows Under Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
Captured onboard a NASA Operation IceBridge flight to survey glacier change in a warming world, this photograph shows a beach and stream in Russel Fjord, Alaska, near the terminus of Hubbard Glacier.
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Beached bergs in Alaska
Beached bergs in Alaska
CO2 emissions
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CO2 video for carbon feature
En la gráfica se comparan los cambios en la temperatura de la superficie global (línea roja) y la energía del Sol que recibe la Tierra (línea amarilla) en vatios (unidades de energía) por metro cuadrado desde 1880.
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Temperature vs Solar Activi...
Temperatura vs actividad solar
This animation shows how global sea levels have risen more than 80 millimeters (3.15 inches) over the past three decades, which is like covering the U.S. in about 4 meters (about 13 feet) of water over that period.
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Animation: Global Sea Level...
Animation: Global Sea Level Change (1992-2017)
Track Earth's vital signs and fly along with NASA's Earth-observing satellites.
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Eyes on the Earth
Interactive: Eyes on the Earth
With autumn's arrival, chlorophyll begins to cede its dominance in the photosynthetic process, revealing yellow and orange tones on land, while in the ocean and lakes, phytoplankton pigments highlight different water masses and current systems.
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Changing colors across land...
Photosynthetic pigments by land and sea
This visualization shows that as land temperatures have increased since 1950, hotter days have become more common and colder days have become less common.
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Watching the Land Temperatu...
Watching the Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (1950-2020)
The relentless rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
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The inexorable rise of carb...
Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
A quick guide to the science behind sea level rise from an ice-loss perspective, what it means in relatable terms and why it matters.
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On Thin Ice: Why Ice Loss M...
On Thin Ice: Why Ice Loss Matters
This animation compares sea surface salinity (saltiness) data from two NASA datasets from 2015 to 2017.
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Animation: Sea Surface Sali...
Animation: Sea Surface Salinity (Saltiness) Comparison (2015-2017)
The water cycle is a never-ending global process of water circulation from clouds to the land, to the ocean, and back to the clouds. Print this page to color with your kids at home.
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Coloring Page: The Water Cycle
Coloring Page: The Water Cycle
Carbon dioxide is the main heat-trapping greenhouse gas that humans emit. How much do you know about it and its impact on global warming and climate change?
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Carbon dioxide quiz - how m...
Quiz: Carbon dioxide
This animation shows the change in atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels as a result of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions.
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COVID-19 Mitigation Leads t...
COVID-19 Mitigation Leads to Reduced Pollution Associated with Decreased Fossil Fuel Use

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Images of Change

Images of Change

Explore a stunning gallery of before-and-after images of Earth from land and space that reveal our home planet in a state of flux.
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Climate Time Machine

Climate Time Machine

Travel through Earth's recent climate history and see how increasing carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea ice have changed over time.
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Eyes on the Earth

Eyes on the Earth

Track Earth's vital signs from space and fly along with NASA's Earth-observing satellites in an interactive 3D visualization.
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Global Ice Viewer

Global Ice Viewer

Earth's ice cover is shrinking. See how climate change has affected glaciers, sea ice, and continental ice sheets.
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