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Grinnell Glacier shrinkage
The problem with climate change explained by Bill McKibben
climate change: timeline
What's the problem with an early spring?
iceberg Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan deciduous trees
What is cloud seeding and can it be used to fight climate change?
The impact of human activities on climate change
precession
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Combination shot of Grinnell Glacier taken from the summit of Mount Gould, Glacier National Park, Montana in the years 1938, 1981, 1998 and 2006.
Pop Quiz: 18 Things to Know About Global Warming
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rain. Child in the rain, wearing a rain coat, under a yellow umbrella. April Showers weather climate rain storm water drops
April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs
Cyclone winds in aerial of clouds. (hurricane; storm; wind) This image is most likely digitally altered.
Climate Change
Iceland, Glacier lagoon (Jokulsarlon)
Winter Weather Words Quiz
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High-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image taken by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station (Sept. 2010).
Is the Number of Hurricanes Increasing?
Polar bear leaping among ice floes at Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway, the Arctic. Sea ice climate change mammal jump global warming
A Recent History of Climate Change
Cracked ice in Arctic Ocean (ice floe; ice flow; ice formation; melting ice; glacier)
Is Climate Change Real?
Brown layer of Los Angeles smog; photo taken on November 10, 2016.(California, environment, smog)
What's the Difference Between Global Warming and Climate Change?
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Timeline of Climate Change
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Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
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How climate change is increasing complication risks for pregnant women • May 20, 2025, 5:42 AM ET (CBS)
Dimming the Sun ‘not the way to fight climate change’ • May 16, 2025, 11:03 PM ET (The Telegraph)
Climate change increasing risk of pregnancy problems: Study • May 14, 2025, 2:00 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
Bird Populations Drastically Dwindling • May 12, 2025, 10:56 AM ET (The Weather Channel)
Climate change made April's catastrophic floods worse, report finds • May 8, 2025, 8:39 AM ET (Live Science)

Facts

Also Known As climatic fluctuation • climate variation • climatic variation • climatic change

Photos and Videos

Grinnell Glacier shrinkage
climate change: timeline
iceberg
Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan
deciduous trees
precession
imaging using ultraviolet light
Mount Pinatubo
greenhouse effect on Earth
Adirondack Mountains
The problem with climate change explained by Bill McKibben
What's the problem with an early spring?
What is cloud seeding and can it be used to fight climate change?
The impact of human activities on climate change
David Attenborough: An explorer's life
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Key People

Al Gore
Al Gore
vice president of United States
Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg
Swedish activist
Nordhaus, William
William Nordhaus
American economist
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist

Related Quizzes and Features

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Cyclone winds in aerial of clouds. (hurricane; storm; wind) This image is most likely digitally altered.
Climate Change
Combination shot of Grinnell Glacier taken from the summit of Mount Gould, Glacier National Park, Montana in the years 1938, 1981, 1998 and 2006.
Pop Quiz: 18 Things to Know About Global Warming
Iceland, Glacier lagoon (Jokulsarlon)
Winter Weather Words Quiz
rain. Child in the rain, wearing a rain coat, under a yellow umbrella. April Showers weather climate rain storm water drops
April Showers to March’s Lions and Lambs
Demystified
Cracked ice in Arctic Ocean (ice floe; ice flow; ice formation; melting ice; glacier)
Is Climate Change Real?
Ghost forest along the Lewis Gut - a stream along the coast near Core Point, North Carolina. Photographed in 2022
Ghost Forests Are Becoming the New Haunts of Climate Change
Brown layer of Los Angeles smog; photo taken on November 10, 2016.(California, environment, smog)
What's the Difference Between Global Warming and Climate Change?