Environmental Science

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The Importance of Fresh Water

What happens to humans and other living things when freshwater is used up? Learn about human water use and its impacts on us and the environment.
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Water Conservation and Restoration

Fresh water is a valuable resource to humans and many other animals. When it comes to conservation and restoration it is important we learn about how we can protect freshwater.
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Fascinating Carnivorous Plants

The Museum of Science is home to some curious plants. These are particularly hungry examples. Explore these carnivorous plants that get food in unusual ways.
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When the Earth Quakes: Why and How?

Solid does not necessarily mean rigid, as we can sense from a concrete parking deck bouncing under heavy traffic.Comparably, we can sometimes see evidence on mountainsides and along road cuts that tremendous forces within the Earth’s crust have tilted...
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Arctic Ice and Climate History

The ice in the arctic hold clues to what life used to look like on Earth. Discover how scientists take samples and study ice learn more about Earth’s past climate.
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Sustaining our Seas

Climate change is affecting every part of the Earth, especially our oceans and the sea life within them. As the oceans warm, the acidity changes, and sea levels rise, scientists are observing changes in our fish stocks, habitats, and fishing patterns.
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Wildfires and Drought: Sensing Our Climate

Why are wildfires becoming more intense and frequent and what does that have to do with climate change? Learn how scientists use data from remote sensing equipment on satellites and airplanes to map fires so firefighters respond sooner to stop them from...
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Rising Sea Level: Sensing Our Climate

Why are sea levels rising and what can we do to protect coastal areas? Explore how remote sensing provides scientists with the data they need to understand how climate change is connected to sea level rise and how to predict and prepare for future changes...
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Extreme Precipitation: Sensing Our Climate

Why are some parts of the world experiencing increased storms and precipitation and how can we prepare for them? Learn how climate change can affect precipitation and how remote sensing can be used to track storms to provide earlier warnings.
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Extreme Temperatures - Sensing Our Climate

What does increasing global average temperature have to do with places experiencing more frequent extreme temperature events? Explore how data from remote sensing allows scientists to understand how climate change is affecting temperatures worldwide.
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The Highest Mountain in the Middle of the Largest Ocean: Why Hawaii?

2,500 miles southwest of Los Angeles, Hawaii is a tropical archipelago with summer and winter coastal air averages of 85° and 78° and water averages of 81° and 76°. According to TripAdvisor, “For many, the word vacation conjures images of sunbathing on a...
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Death to a Display: How Does the Journey of a Dinosaur Fossil Begin?

A great article by Tom Holland in The Guardian newspaper in 2015 illuminated our obsession with dinosaurs: “Emblems alike of success and failure, of continuity and extinction, of weirdness and familiarity, they are fit objects on to which we can project...
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Inside Out: Why Iceland is a Rare Window into the Earth?

Geological understanding of the world’s continents and oceans was only just beginning to emerge when New Zealander Edmund Hillary with Nepali Tenzing Norgay scaled the six-mile-high Mount Everest in 1953 and US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh with Swiss...
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Time Is Pressing: Can We Be Good Ancestors?

This century dawned with a promising new perspective on the most recent stage of the Earth’s 4.6 billion-year history. The Anthropocene, named by Nobel chemist Paul Crutzen (1933-2021), focuses on human-induced transformations of the Earth System. Not yet...
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Sea Level Is Never Level: How Does Geology Inform Coastal Planning?

With his characteristic eloquence, a 1962 speech by President John F. Kennedy to America’s Cup crews in Rhode Island made a scientific fact relevant to everyone. Referring to the part humans play in the relentless motion of the Earth’s primordial water...