Climate Change

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Sensing Our Climate: Extreme Temperatures 

This video explores how data from remote sensing allows scientists to understand how climate change is affecting temperatures worldwide.
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Sensing Our Climate: Extreme Precipitation

Learn how climate change can affect precipitation and how remote sensing can be used to track storms to provide earlier warnings.
Podcast

Why Is the City Hotter Than the Suburbs?

In this informative Pulsar podcast from #MOSatHome, listen and watch as Museum educator Sara discusses climate research and citizen science focused on learning about Boston’s urban heat island effect.
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Wicked Hot Boston

In the summer of 2019, the Museum of Science, Boston, (MOS) studied the impacts of extreme heat and the urban heat island effect through community-based participatory science, otherwise known as citizen science. Nicknamed “Wicked Hot Boston,” the summer’s...