Videos

Basically everything that we think of as “modern human civilization”—permanent agriculture, continuously occupied cities, free WiFi—has emerged since the last ice age ended roughly 11,000 years ago.

NOAA Corps officer Tim Holland talks shows us what you see when you live at the South Pole. He is working in Antarctica for a year, 2020-2021, for NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory.

NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) Scientist Pieter Tans explains what greenhouse gases are and how the greenhouse effect works.

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Paleoclimate Scientist Bruce Bauer explains why studying tree rings is important, and the wonderful things we can learn from them.

National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Scientist and Paleoclimatologist Bruce Bauer explains what tree cores are.

NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) Scientist Andy Hoell explains how he studies climate and how it can be important.