Global warming – Science in School

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November 3, 2021 | Issue 55

Climate change articles to accompany the COP26 summit

Events like COP26 are an opportunity to teach students about the importance of STEM for society, and how what they learn in class has real-world relevance. Here is a collection of Science in School articles on climate change to get you started.

Ages: not applicable;
Topics: Sustainability, Science and society, Earth science
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December 1, 2015 | Issue 34

Unexpected climate change

Reporting from the COP21 conference in Paris, we ask why ‘global warming’ can actually make the weather colder.

Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Earth science
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November 22, 2011 | Issue 21

Smoke is in the air: how fireworks affect air quality

Did you realise that fireworks cause measurable air pollution? Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross from Bristol University, UK, explain how to investigate atmospheric pollutants in class.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Chemistry
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October 2, 2008 | Issue 9

An Inconvenient Truth, By Al Gore

Horror movies are a popular, albeit rather despised, film genre. It is all the more surprising that the most horrific of the current crop of scary movies has recently won an Oscar, not to mention the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to its main protagonist.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Resources
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April 29, 2008 | Issue 8

What do we know about climate? Investigating the effects of anthropogenic global warming

In this, the second of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence that humans are causing climate change.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Earth science, Science and society
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December 6, 2007 | Issue 7

What do we know about climate? The evidence for climate change

In the first of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence for climate change.

Ages: 16-19;
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science
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June 6, 2007 | Issue 5

Travel wisely: the globe is warming!

Elisabeth Schepers from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, introduces a school programme linking climate change and the future of traffic technology.

Ages: < 11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Earth science, General science
Ελληνικα English Malti

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December 20, 2006 | Issue 3

Bringing global climate change to the classroom

Ivo Grigorov from the EurOCEANS project describes how the deep seas can help us to understand and predict climate change.

Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Topics: Biology, Earth science, General science
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