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Learn how you can explore Earth Now's many features, including real-time data visualizations of Earth's vital signs and 3D models of Earth-orbiting satellite missions.
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'Earth Now' Tutorial
'Earth Now' Tutorial
The IPCC's four key findings
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The IPCC's four key findings
Graphic: The IPCC's four key findings
A super high-definition view of how carbon dioxide in the air moves around the world with the winds.
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Super HD view of global car...
Video: Super HD view of global carbon dioxide
​ A spring phytoplankton bloom off of the Alaskan coast.
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Churning in the Chukchi Sea
Churning in the Chukchi Sea
Video: 25 years of Antarctic land ice elevation change
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Video: 25 Years of Antarcti...
Video: 25 Years of Antarctic Land Ice Elevation Change Anomalies (West Coast Fly Over)
Now you see it, now you don't - Climate 365 graphic
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Graphic: Dramatic glacier melt
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
NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captured water mixing between Georgia's ick-colored Suwannee River and the deep blue Gulf of Mexico.
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Suwannee blackwater river meets the sea
CO2 emissions
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CO2 video for carbon feature
Video: Using observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) satellite, scientists developed a model of the behavior of carbon in the atmosphere from September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015.
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Following carbon dioxide th...
Video: Following atmospheric carbon dioxide
Test your knowledge of ocean salinity and its relationship to climate change.
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Quiz: Ocean salinity
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
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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Video: Temperature Puzzle
Graphic: Global surface temperature changes versus the Sun's energy that the Earth receives in watts (units of energy) per square meter since 1880.
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Temperature vs Solar Activity
Graphic: Temperature vs Solar Activity
Test your knowledge of how Earth is different from other planets, both within our solar system and beyond.
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Quiz: Our world, other worlds
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
Temperature agreement - Climate 365 graphic
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Temperature agreement - Cli...
Graphic: Earth's temperature record
Test your knowledge of sea level rise and its effect on global populations.
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Quiz: Sea level rise
A detailed look at Jupiter's and Earth's atmospheres and cores as we unlock mysteries of the solar system.
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Jupiter and Earth: Giant di...
Infographic: Jupiter and Earth: Giant discoveries ahead
Arctic sea ice - Climate 365 graphic
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Graphic: Arctic sea ice loss
Video: The ocean's important role in absorbing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Ocean circulation plays an ...
Video: Ocean circulation plays an important role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere
NASA Earth Right Now promo
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NASA Earth Right Now promo
Video: NASA Earth Right Now promo
Climate time machine interactive
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Interactive: Climate time machine
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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Home Frontier
Color-coded map of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2019. 
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Video: Global warming from 1880 to 2019

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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 Mobile Apps

Climate Mobile Apps

Keep track of Earth's vital signs, see the planet in a state of flux and slow the pace of global warming with NASA's free mobile apps.
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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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