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<p>Learn about Earth’s changing climate during the last million years in this video from the NOVA Polar Lab. </p>

Why Trees are Living Climate Records

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<p>This video from the NOVA Polar Lab shows students how trees can act as time capsules, recording information about climate as they grow.</p>

Fifty Million Years Ago, the Arctic was a Warm Swamp

<p>This video from the NOVA Polar Lab shows students what the Arctic would have been like 50 million years ago, when the global climate is described as a “hot house.”</p>

Glacial Retreat in Greenland

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<p>Learn about glaciers and how they are the connection between global climate change and rising sea levels in this video from the NOVA Polar Lab. </p>

Join scientists on a quest to discover what Earth’s climate was like in the past — and where we might be headed in the NOVA Polar Lab

Polar Lab

<p>Join scientists on a quest to discover what Earth’s climate was like in the past — and where we might be headed.</p>

Brand: NOVA Labs

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