Global Cycles
Materials including carbon, water, and nutrients cycle through many compartments around the globe. Climate change has altered some of these cycles.
Top layers of the Earth's atmosphere leading to space. Atmospheric gases scatter blue light more than other wavelengths, giving Earth a blue halo when seen from space.
Bloom (2010) Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines. Sinauer Associates.
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Nuclear power
Last Updated on 2013-04-30 at 15:25
Nuclear power is the generation of electricity from controlled reactions within the nucleii of atoms that release energy used to boil water, the steam from which drives a... More »
Permafrost
Last Updated on 2012-08-21 at 22:44
A soil is considered permafrost if its temperature remains permanently below the melting point of water for at least two years. Such permafrost soil is ubiquitous in high... More »
Drought in Eastern Africa
Last Updated on 2012-07-12 at 10:51
More Frequent Drought
Likely in Eastern Africa
The increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as... More »
Evidence: Benefits of Biodiversity
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 19:27
Precedent-Setting Evidence of the
Benefits of Biodiversity
New evidence that biodiversity promotes water quality suggests that
accelerating species losses may... More »
Soil Microorganisms and Biogeochemistry
Last Updated on 2012-05-07 at 18:52
The vast majority of carbon on Earth is located underground in inorganic forms such as the carbonates in sedimentary rock, mostly calcite (CaCO3), and in organic forms such as... More »
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