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Map depicting an increase in C02 emissions from North America
Increased C02 emissions map
Illustration of a ghost forest, which can be caused by sea-level rise, land subsidence, or both. As land subsides along the coast, trees can drown in saturated soils, creating ghost forests. Salt-water intrusion into groundwater can also cause salt-intolerant trees to die.
Climate change: ghost forest
Top view of a mining truck
Petroleum industry: mining truck
View of melted snowman
Snowman: melted
Conceptual diagram illustrating preparations for the effects of climate change: Elevating and moving houses and utilities away from flood plain boundaries make them less vulnerable to storms and may lower flood insurance rates. Rather than building a concrete levy to protect property, consider a natural shoreline that offers the same benefit.
Adaptation to Climate Change
Conceptual diagram illustrating preparations for the effects of climate change: In an area where all of the organisms are alike, it is possible to lose an entire population due to a single pest infestation. Landscape with a variety of native, drought-resistant plants to support biodiversity and resilient backyard communities.
Biodiversity for Climate Change
Conceptual diagram illustrating the mean sea level trends at Ocean City, MD and Norfolk, VA. Source: tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
Local Sea Level Trends
What you can do to prepare for climate change diagram from
Prepare for climate change
Conceptual diagram illustrating relative seal-level rise based on global global sea levels and land subsistence; with examples from Key West, Florida and Galveston, Texas.
Relative Sea-level Rise
Conceptual diagram illustrating thermal expansion of the ocean in relation to climate change.
Experiment for Thermal Expansion
Conceptual diagram illustrating the effects of climate change on polar ice. There are two kinds of polar ice - ice that floats on the sea (sea ice) or ice that sits on land (land ice). The experiment demonstrates that sea ice does not impact sea-level rise when it melts, but land ice does add to sea-level rise when it melts into the ocean.
Experiment Demonstrating Melting Ice
Conceptual diagram illustrating changes due to the warming of the atmosphere. The average temperature on Earth has been increasing for many years, caused by increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Rising temperatures lead to a number of changes around the world.
Atmosphere Warming Changes
Illustration of the edible portion of the polychaete worm Palolo viridis.
Palolo virdis (Samoan Palolo Worm)
Illustration representing climate change and above average temperatures
Climate change: above average temperatures
Conceptual diagram illustrating the universal causes and effects of sea-level rise.
Relative sea-level rise
Flooded salt marsh due to storm surge at high tide. Culvert allows tide to flow under road but is almost submerged due to storm.
Tropical Storm Hanna
Submerged tidal marsh due to storm surge.
Tropical Storm Hanna
Coastal erosion on Taylors Island.
Tropical Storm Hanna
Flooding in the rural community of Madison surrounds firehouse
Tropical Storm Hanna
Flooding in the rural community of Madison surrounds historic home and cemetary
Tropical Storm Hanna
Conceptual Diagram illustrating the process that creates low oxygen levels in an estuary.
Hypoxia
Conceptual diagram illustrating the affects of climate change on the habitat of striped bass in a coastal/marine ecosystem.
Squeeze Zone for Striped Bass
Illustration of sea-level rise
Climate change: sea-level rise
Conceptual diagram of processes in Polar coastal regions developed as part of the LOICZ project to look at Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
Polar Coastal Ecosystem Summary
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