A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is perfectly aligned between the Sun and the Earth. There are three different types of solar eclipses - total, annular, and hybrid.
Artist April Waters describes her expedition to Antarctica and how she created paintings that depict water and ice.
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Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica, an exhibition by Oregon-based artist April Waters, is on display at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, from October 9, 2023, to April 15, 2024.
Drought can occur anywhere in the world and harm people and ecosystems. Drought is becoming more frequent and more severe due to climate change.
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A dangerous ozone hole started forming over Antarctica in the mid-1970s. But why? Learn how scientists found the pollutants that were destroying ozone inside unusual clouds and how the world took action to save the ozone layer which protects all life on Earth.
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Students learn how making changes to our environment can help keep people safe and reduce the impacts of weather hazards as they explore a human-built pond that is sometimes dry and sometimes filled with floodwater.
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Students explore glaciers and other parts of the Earth system through photos from Alaska and identify how the environment changed in photos taken over the 20th century as the climate warmed.
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Explore a variety of hands-on and collaborative games to teach Earth systems in your middle school science classroom.
Learn the best ways to incorporate climate science into lessons you already teach in your elementary classroom. Bring an idea or topic and we’ll help you develop it into a lesson plan!