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Warm Up Quiz
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Test your knowledge of global temperature change and its impact on Earth's climate.

Aug 25, 2025
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Earth Series: From Space to Your Plate
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Earth has an incredibly varied and ever-changing landscape—jagged mountains, arid deserts, lush rainforests, rolling wheat fields. Before NASA came on…

Apr 29, 2025
Earth Series: The Ocean, Now in Full Color
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Life all over the planet—even far from the coasts—depends on the oceans. A pair of NASA satellites, PACE and SWOT,…

Apr 22, 2025
Welcome to Earth
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There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information…

Apr 8, 2025
Causes
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Takeaways Increasing Greenhouses Gases Are Warming the Planet Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to…

Jun 15, 2022
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Steamy Relationships: How Atmospheric Water Vapor Amplifies Earth’s Greenhouse Effect
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Water vapor is Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas. It’s responsible for about half of Earth’s greenhouse effect — the process…

Feb 8, 2022
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What is the greenhouse effect?
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The greenhouse effect is the process through which heat is trapped near Earth’s surface by substances known as ‘greenhouse gases.’…

Sep 18, 2014
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