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Archive: Science Update: 2025 Arctic Report Card Headlines, January 29, 2026
This Science Update celebrates and shares the 20th anniversary Arctic Report Card (ARC), an annual update on the state of the Arctic environment produced by NOAA and national and international partners. In this webinar, ARC contributors wil...
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Science Update: Archive: Mineral Resources for our Future, October 16, 2025
Critical minerals have been all over the news lately. While we may be familiar with the mining of copper, coal, and gold, emerging resources like lithium, rare earth elements, cobalt, and more have driven the search for a new generation of...
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Archive: Hubble's 36th Anniversary and Recent Science Highlights, April 23, 2026
Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute will present new images and recent science results from the Hubble Space Telescope, on the eve of the 36th anniversary of its launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. To learn more about the ...
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Archive: Science Update: Hubble Observations of Interstellar Objects, August 21, 2025
A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the third interstellar object, known as 3I/ATLAS and resembling a comet, traveling at 130,000 miles per hour within our solar system using the crisp vision of Hubble. This breathtaking spri...
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Archive: Science Update: The Dynamic Atmosphere: Extreme Weather, June 26, 2025
Extreme atmospheric events, also known as extreme weather, are unusually severe occurrences that can cause significant damage and disruption. These events can range from heat waves and cold snaps to heavy precipitation, droughts, and various storms, ...
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Ready to engage your high school physics, biology, earth science, and environmental science students in meaningful climate investigations? Join Vernier biology and physics experts Colleen McDaniel and Fran Poodry, along with Vernier Trendsetter...
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Archive Science Update: Energy: The Push From Non-Renewable to Renewable Sources, April 24, 2025
The global energy demand has increased nearly exponentially in the last century and is projected to increase at a similar rate in the future. Yet the finite qualities of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions make many non-renewable energy sources (including...
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Archive: Science Update: Space Weather: The Sun, Earth, and You, December 4, 2025
The Sun is constantly churning and bubbling. In addition to the radiation that supports life on Earth, the Sun often releases particles energetic enough to harm Earth-based and near-Earth assets. Just like meteorologists are able to interpret weather...
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The ocean acts like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Increased absorption by the ocean causes changes to our ocean's chemistry from pole to pole. This is known as ocean acidification. Ocean acidification has regional and local ...
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Marine debris is a widespread pollution problem in our ocean and waterways. It can harm wildlife, habitats, and our economy. This issue is human-caused, but it also has human solutions. One of the best tools we have to combat marine debris is underst...
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Archive: Science Update: Exploring the Applications of Low Earth Orbit Observations, May 8, 2025
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is a joint mission between NOAA and NASA that observes Earth and provides critical data for weather forecasting in addition to many other climate change, agriculture, aviation, and disaster monitoring applicati...
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With environmental issues and awareness rising globally, our connection to the natural world is clearly critical, but education that teaches children how to relate to local plants and animals is seemingly lacking in elementary curriculum. For an unde...
By Bria Beardsley, Karl Jung
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Melting Science Stereotypes with the Help of a Snowy Day
How are exploring snowy spaces, starring in children's books, and making science discoveries inextricably linked? Access to and representation in all three of these experiences have historically been inequitable....
By David Owens, Regina McCurdy
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Puddles to Floods: Field-based Investigations on Flooding in New Orleans
All students deserve access to field-based learning experiences where they can conduct investigations and collect data to answer their questions about the world. These opportunities are particularly important in the context of complex climate-related...
By Brooke Sprague, Claire Anderson, Karen Marshall, Jazmine Henderson, Shermaine Johnson