cycle. From the peak to the minimum, the average amount of energy reaching the top of Earth's atmosphere varies by about 0.1%. It's a small difference: in an average cycle, it's only enough to warm or ...

blue carbon in seagrass meadows. "Blue carbon" refers to the carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by marine organisms and coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses. In A ...

learn about the harmful impacts of CFCs on ozone and learn about "harmful" ozone in the lower atmosphere. Students also learn that a global policy can be enacted to solve a worldwide environmental iss ...

summer, the region may have completely lost the last remaining wild elkhorn and staghorn corals in the Florida Keys ecosystem. Lessons learned. Last year's event forced a real-time experiment that sho ...

than regular spring tides. The very highest tides of the year—the king tides—are the spring tides in late fall through early winter in the Northern Hemisphere, when Earth is as close to the sun as it ...

change, there is no reason to think that this would be happening on the Mendenhall Glacier, then in the lake, and downriver," Thoman said. Climate change and glacier retreat in Alaska. Alaska has warm ...

an answer key. Instructors can use Excel or Matlab, but students should have some background in whichever program they use. Activity takes 1 to 2 weeks depending on other class responsibilities. Compu ...

As recently as 2014, Antarctic sea ice racked up an all-time-high winter maximum extent. Starting in 2016, however, Antarctic sea ice extents have fallen mostly below the 1981-2010 average, and 2023 e ...

strong and easterly displaced jet stream (an area of narrow, strong winds high up in the atmosphere that helps to develop and guide storm systems.) This strong jet stream directed the remnants of Song ...

30% of CO2 release. Another example is stating that "CO2 is the only carbon in the atmosphere", while CH4 (methane) also substantially contributes. Perhaps simplifications are intentional for the audi ...