17 results for “climate”

1. Planet Earth

   Weather and Climate

   Climate Climate is weather averaged over decades. Britain has a wet, mild climate; the Sahara a hot, dry one. Climate

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   climates growth stops each winter and resumes each spring, and the alternation of fast pale spring

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3. Life & Biology

   Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions

   climate change are implicated in most of them. Each time, life recovered over millions of years

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4. Life & Biology

   Ecosystems and Food Webs

   climate. It can be as small as a rotting log or as large as the Amazon

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5. Planet Earth

   Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes

   climate within the range where liquid water and life can exist. Earth is the only planet

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6. Animals

   Animal Migration

   Climate change is shifting the seasons so that migrants arriving on their ancient timetable find the insects

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7. Chemistry

   Water: The Strangest Ordinary Substance

   climates mild. Sweating works for the same reason: as sweat evaporates, it carries a large amount

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8. Planets & the Solar System

   The Moon

   climate between extremes. The Moon's pull keeps the tilt near 23.5 degrees, giving us stable

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9. Planet Earth

   The Atmosphere

   climate, amounts to a few hundredths of a percent. Water vapour varies from almost nothing over

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10. Planet Earth

    Volcanoes

    climate A big eruption changes the weather for the whole planet. Ash falls out of the air within

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11. Animals

    Insects

    climate change. Why, how widespread it is, and what happens to the birds, fish and crops

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12. Planet Earth

    Inside the Earth

    climate habitable over geological time. The core's magnetic field protects the atmosphere. Earth is still

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13. Plants & Fungi

    Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

    climate change would be running far faster. The green chemistry of the leaf is, quite simply

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14. Planets & the Solar System

    Mercury and Venus

    climate, and tells us how to judge the habitability of the thousands of Earth-sized planets

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15. Plants & Fungi

    Seeds

    climate destroys a crop somewhere. Why it matters A seed is the simplest and most effective

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16. Planet Earth

    The Oceans

    climate Water stores heat extraordinarily well, and the ocean has absorbed about 90 percent of the extra

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17. Plants & Fungi

    Flowers and Pollination

    climate, and farmers in some regions already hire hives by the truckload or pollinate by hand

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