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We anticipate that the land masses of Earth will warm, precipitation will increase in wet regions and decrease in dry regions, and fire frequency will increase.
Transfogarascher Highway through Carpathian Mountains of Romania. Some of the more extreme changes in climate will become evident on land.
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Teaching materials on how climate change impacts land
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Case: Can the needs for environmental...
SUMMARY This case study jigsaw approach with a is based on the article "A Challenge to Consrvationists" by Mac Chapin. The case study discusses the tensions... More »
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Global warming is epic, long-term study says
(CNN) -- Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest -- in just one century. A heat spike... More »
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Video: Need to Know: Climate Change Comes for...
SUMMARY Our report on Norfolk, VA looks at the effect sea level rise has on one town in Virginia. However, sea level rise isn't the only potential effect of climate... More »
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Podcast: NPR series - This Drought's No Dry...
SUMMARY 5:37 minutes NPR series, Published: August 4, 2012 Schaper explores what farmers have learned and how they have adjusted their agriculture practices due to... More »
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Activity: Investigating Climate Change Using...
Selected for the CLEAN Collection. Activity description is by the CLEAN reviewers. Activity takes four to five 45-minute class periods. Computer access is required. ... More »
Video: Energy 101: Wind Turbines - CLEAN
Last Updated on 2013-04-16 at 18:17
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Video length: 2:16 min.
Selected for the CLEAN Collection. This video provides a simple introduction to wind turbines and how they generate... More »
Case: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Tribes in...
Last Updated on 2013-04-11 at 17:32
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This is a clicker case is the second of a two-part series that is an introduction to potential impacts of Global Climate change on the of the Tribal Lands in... More »
Global warming is epic, long-term study says
Last Updated on 2013-04-08 at 20:52
(CNN) -- Global warming has propelled Earth's climate from one of its coldest decades since the last ice age to one of its hottest -- in just one century.
A heat spike... More »
Jig Saw Project: Evaluating the Effects of Local...
Last Updated on 2013-04-02 at 21:19
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Selected for the CLEAN Collection.
This is a semester-long jigsaw project in which students work in teams to explore the effects of energy resource development... More »
Gallery of Greenhouse Gas Molecules - CLEAN
Last Updated on 2013-03-22 at 20:19
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Selected for the CLEAN Collection. This static visualization from Global Warming Art depicts the chemical characteristics of eight greenhouse gas molecules -... More »
Land-use and land-cover change
Last Updated on 2013-03-20 at 23:49
Introduction
Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC); also known as land change) is a general term for the human modification of Earth's terrestrial surface.... More »
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