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Test your knowledge of energy and its role in our climate.
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Test your knowledge of energy and its role in our climate.
Quiz: Energy
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 through the atmosphere
Video: Following atmospheric carbon dioxide
City vs. desert - Climate365 graphic
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City vs. desert - Climate365 graphic
Graphic: City vs. desert temperatures
From NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign in Alaska: A high altitude view of Icy Bay, in the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. Just a century ago, this body of water was covered in ice.
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Icy Bay, Alaska
Icy Bay, Alaska
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
Quiz: Carbon and the climate
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Quiz: Carbon and the climate
Quiz: Carbon and the climate
Video: Images created from GRACE data showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002.
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Antarctic ice loss 2002-2016
Video: Antarctic ice loss 2002-2016
This chart shows monthly CO2 levels in recent years.
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Graphic: Carbon Dioxide Concentration
Graphic: Carbon Dioxide Concentration
NASA scientists say 2013 tied for the seventh warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.
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Video: Global Temperature Variation
Video: Global Temperature Variation
Video: The ocean's important role in absorbing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Ocean circulation plays an important role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere
Video: Ocean circulation plays an important role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere
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
Oceanographer Josh Willis discusses the heat capacity of water, performs an experiment to demonstrate heat capacity using a water balloon and describes how water's ability to store heat affects Earth's climate.
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Oceanographer Josh Willis discusses the heat capacity of water, performs an experiment to demonstrate heat capacity using a water balloon and describes how water's ability to store heat affects Earth's climate.
Video: Oceans of Climate Change
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
Suwannee blackwater river meets the sea
Visualization that captures sea surface temperature anomalies around the world from 1982 to 2017.
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Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017
Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017
Video: NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and Operation IceBridge missions investigate Greenland's thinning ice sheets from above and below.
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Video: Greenland's thinning ice
Video: Greenland's thinning ice
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
Quiz: The air we breathe
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Quiz: The air we breathe
Quiz: The air we breathe
Now you see it, now you don't - Climate 365 graphic
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Now you see it, now you don't - Climate 365 graphic
Graphic: Dramatic glacier melt
How much do you know about glaciers and ice caps?
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Test your knowledge of the many different varieties of frozen water and how these icy realms are connected to climate change.
Quiz: Ice and glaciers
This chart shows monthly CO2 levels in recent years.
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Video: Carbon Dioxide Concentration
Video: Carbon Dioxide Concentration
Video: Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.
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At glacial speed
Video: At glacial speed
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 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.
Home Frontier
Arctic sea ice - Climate 365 graphic
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Arctic sea ice - Climate 365 graphic
Graphic: Arctic sea ice loss
Video: NASA scientists release the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012.
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Video: Lights of human activity shine in NASA's image of Earth at night
Video: Lights of human activity shine in NASA's image of Earth at night
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 and ocean are revealed as autumn comes to North America. As chlorophyll begins to cede its dominance to other pigments in the photosynthetic process, yellow and orange tones are revealed. Meanwhile, in the ocean and lakes, phytoplankton pigments highlight different water masses and current systems.
Photosynthetic pigments by land and sea

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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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