12 results for “climate change”

1. Planet Earth

   Weather and Climate

   Climate is set by latitude, by distance from the sea, by mountains and by ocean currents, and over thousands of years it changes

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2. 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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3. Animals

   Animal Migration

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

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4. Life & Biology

   Ecosystems and Food Webs

   climate change, hunting, pollution and invasive species carried around the world by people add to it. Why it matters

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5. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

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

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6. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

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

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7. Animals

   Insects

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

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Planets & the Solar System

    Mercury and Venus

    change in sunlight and atmosphere turned one into a paradise and the other into an oven. Understanding exactly how and when that happened helps us understand the stability of our own climate

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11. Planets & the Solar System

    The Moon

    climate between extremes. The Moon's pull keeps the tilt near 23.5 degrees, giving us stable seasons. Phases and eclipses The Moon makes no light of its own. Its phases are simply

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12. Planet Earth

    The Oceans

    climate Water stores heat extraordinarily well, and the ocean has absorbed about 90 percent of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases over the past fifty years. That has spared the land

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