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Issue 15 of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine is now available! In Icebergs and Glaciers, learn about these two very different forms of ice, and what they can teach us (and students) about concepts like buoyancy and density.
In this issue, we’ve dedicated our Professional Learning columns to glaciers and our Across the Curriculum […]

Living on this planet at a time of great changes, the general public should have a fundamental understanding of earth science concepts, according to specialists from many fields who contributed to the report Earth Science Literacy Principles: The Big Ideas and Supporting Concepts of Earth Science.
A product of the Earth Science Literacy Initiative (ESLI), which […]

More than 34 million years ago, glaciers were creating the Gamburtsev mountains in Antarctica as well as the ice sheet that now covers the continent.
Radar images suggest to an international team that glaciers expanded, retracted, and flowed downstream, creating high altitude hollows, or cirques, hanging valleys, and the main valley through the mountain range, […]

The conveyor belt has long served as a metaphor for the movement of ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean. The belt depicts a continuous loop of southbound subsurface cold water and a northbound flow of warm water on the surface. That loop, part of what is called the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, has a powerful […]

When the headlines announce a new finding about the state of our planet’s well-being, chances are good that the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be mentioned in the story as a funding source for some or all of the research. The extent of NSF’s involvement in climate research is reported in a new publication titled Climate […]