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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

For residents of the Marshall Islands, a system of over a thousand islands found on...

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Ice Melt at the Poles

It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion...

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South Carolina Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These South Carolina...

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Ice Melt in Iceland

On average, Arctic sea ice has decreased by four percent per decade since the late...

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Maldives cabinet meeting underwater

The nation of the Maldives is made up of 1,190 coral islands grouped into 26 atolls...

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Mangroves Protect Against Erosion

This is a close-up view of the peat soil surface in an intact mangrove forest....

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Saving Venice, Italy

To protect Venice from rising seas, Dimitri Deheyn (Scripps Institution/UC San...

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Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

Students will learn via experimentation that ice formations on land will cause a...

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What Could a Hurricane do to my home?

This activity explores the potential for global climate change to increase the...

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Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data

Students will use graphical data to understand changing sea levels and how they...

Up Close and Personal With the Fastest Glacier in the World

To really see a glacier move, you first have to speed up the passage of time. What...

Personal Perspectives

What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

Imagine: You’re in a small submersible, and you gently settle on the soft muddy...