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Sea-level rise analysis in major centers.

The Growing Impacts of Global Warming

Greenhouse gases are vital to life on Earth, but the growing concentration of certain gases, such as carbon dioxide, is throwing the planet’s delicate balance out of whack.

How Antarctic land ice is changing

Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

Making Sense of Climate Science Denial

NASA's Earth Minute

NASA's Earth Minute

Climate change and the Arctic

NASA's Earth Minute

Scientists have developed a new model to predict the sea ice minimum extent, using historical measurements and real-time satellite data.

Earth’s surface temperatures in 2017 were the second only to temperatures recorded in 2016, an El Niño year, and the hottest ever, since global estimates began.

Environmental anthropologist Gísli Pálsson describes the rationale behind the project “Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene,” One of the first major calls to integrate social science and humanities more fully in global changer research. The general acknowledgement from the scientific community that “humans are the key actors in refashioning the planet, in generating the problems we face from global warming, pollution, etc,” argued Pálsson and his co-authors in this 2013 article, makes the necessity of drawing on the expertise of social sciences and humanities (SSH) specialists more obvious and more urgent than ever. This development has potentially far-ranging implications not only for the SSH research communities, but also for science and the global change research agenda more generally.