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Climate change articles for students

Weather & Climate
Weather is a specific event—like a rainstorm or hot day—that happens over a few hours, days or weeks. Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over 30 years or more. NASA has observed that Earth's climate is getting warmer.
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/weather-and-climate/
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Big Questions
Big Questions - A Guide to Climate Change for Kids | NASA Climate Kids
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/big-questions/
What is The Greenhouse Effect
The greenhouse effect works much the same way on Earth. Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat similar to the glass roof of a greenhouse.These heat-trapping gases are called greenhouse gases.. During the day, the Sun shines through...
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/
How Do We Know The Climate Is Changing
We know what Earth's past climate was like by studying things that have been around for a long time. For example, scientists can study what Earth's climate was like hundreds of years ago by studying the insides of trees that have been alive since then.....
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-evidence/
What Does Global Climate Change Mean
Climate change describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. For example, 20,000 years ago, much of the United States was covered in glaciers. In the United States today, we...
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-meaning/
Watch Videos
Watch Videos - A Guide to Climate Change for Kids | NASA Climate Kids
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Climate Change - National Geographic Society
Climate change is the long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place. Climate change could refer to a particular location or the planet as a whole. Climate change may cause weather patterns to be less predictable. These...
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/climate-change/
Climate change - National Geographic Kids
Hundreds of plant and animal species have already experienced changes because of climate change. The American pika, for example, is a small mammal that lives in cool mountainous areas in western North America—in fact, it can die when exposed to...
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/climate-change
Resources for Teaching About Climate Change With The New York Times
Here is a collection of selected Learning Network and New York Times resources for teaching and learning about climate change. From The Learning Network, there are lesson plans, writing prompts ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/learning/lesson-plans/resources-for-teaching-about-climate-change-with-the-new-york-times.html
What Are Climate and Climate Change? (Grades 5-8) - NASA
Climate change, therefore, is a change in the typical or average weather of a region or city. This could be a change in a region's average annual rainfall, for example. Or it could be a change in a city's average temperature for a given month...
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/what-are-climate-and-climate-change-grades-5-8/
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