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A graphic shows that when fossil fuel-derived greenhouse gas emissions stop, global warming stops within a few years.
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Graphic: When Emissions Sto...
Graphic: When Emissions Stop, Warming Stops
Animation showing changes in Greenland ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.
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Video: Greenland Ice Mass L...
Video: Greenland Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020
Earth has about 370,000,000,000,000,000,000 (quintillion) gallons of water, with some sources easier to access and use than others. The water budget tells us where that water is – key information that helps better plan for the future.
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Video: Earth's Water Budget
Video: Earth's Water Budget
Video: The NASA satellite fleet in 2017, from low Earth orbit to the DSCOVR satellite taking in the million-mile view.
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Video: NASA's vantage point to view Earth
Los aerosoles son diminutas partículas sólidas y líquidas suspendidas en la atmósfera.
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Me llamo Aerosol
Me llamo Aerosol
NASA explores. From its earliest days of sounding rockets and balloon-borne instruments, to Apollo and Hubble and missions to Mars. This mission of exploration has also always focused on our own corner of the universe, Earth - the home frontier. Earth is still the only planet we've ever been to, as this video explains.
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NASA explores. From its ear...
Home Frontier
Video: Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate.
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New study finds sea level r...
Video: New study finds sea level rise accelerating
This visualization depicts changes in Antarctic land ice thickness as measured by the ICESat and ICESat-2 satellites.
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Antarctic Land Ice Height C...
Antarctic Land Ice Height Change as Measured by ICESat and ICESat-2
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
An animation shows several high impact events across the globe between August 2019 and January 2020, including the Australian bushfires.
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Global Transport of Smoke f...
Global Transport of Australian Bushfire Smoke
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
​ A spring phytoplankton bloom off of the Alaskan coast.
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Churning in the Chukchi Sea
Churning in the Chukchi Sea
We know seas are rising and we know why. The urgent questions are by how much and how quickly.
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Infographic: Sea level rise
Infographic: Sea level rise
Did you know there’s about 400 parts per million (ppm) of caffeine in coffee? There's over 400 ppm of CO₂ in our atmosphere today. If you've felt the surge of caffeine hitting your system, you've experienced the effects of just 400 ppm.
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Carbon Dioxide Is Giving Ea...
Carbon Dioxide Is Giving Earth a Jolt!
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
This image shows a spinning formation of ice, clouds and low-lying fog off the eastern coast of Greenland. This image was acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite on May 14, 2001. This is a false-color composite image made using infrared, red and green wavelengths.
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Whirlpool
Whirlpool
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
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
Global ice viewer interactive
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Global ice viewer interactive
Interactive: Global ice viewer
CO2 emissions
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video about the amount of c...
CO2 video for carbon feature
Durante más de 20 años, la NASA ha estado rastreando la topografía de la superficie global del océano para comprender el importante papel que desempeña en nuestras vidas.
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Aumento del nivel del mar
Aumento del nivel del mar
Every summer, phytoplankton spread across the North Atlantic, with blooms spanning hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles. Blooms off Scandinavia seem to be particularly intense in summer 2018.
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Summer blooms in the Baltic
This animation shows the movement of carbon dioxide between the air and sea with the help of ocean surface winds from Jan. 3, 2012 to Aug. 15, 2012.
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Video: Movement of Carbon D...
Video: Movement of Carbon Dioxide Between the Air and Sea
Video: NASA scientists release the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012.
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Video: Lights of human acti...
Video: Lights of human activity shine in NASA's image of Earth at night
This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites.
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Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise
Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise

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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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