Topic: Human World
You can find the ecological footprints of humans in the even most remote part of Antarctica. A scientist talks about how air pollution affects alpine plant life here in the U.S. — today on Earth and Sky.
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- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
In the Amazon, there’s a growing human population in a region that also contains 30% of Earth’s total plants and animals. Learn how scientists have put together an Internet window to the Amazon — today on Earth and Sky.
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More than 1/3 of Earth’s species — and about 30% of the total living plants and animals on Earth — live in the Amazon. Discover a noted scientist’s perspective on the perils and promise of this region — today on Earth and Sky.
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- The Changing Forest: Forest Ecology (9-12)
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…we’re expecting that there are going to be pronounced impacts on the climate system, some of which we’re already beginning to see, and more of which we’re expecting over the course of the next century.
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Cities make their own weather
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