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Climate Change: Inside View

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and its collaborating institutions discuss their research on the climate change crisis in this video companion to the new exhibition Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future. Topics include the measurement of the current carbon footprint of highly populated and industrial northeastern Ohio; the sweep of thousands of years of data provided by Greenland ice cores; the effect of clouds on climate; the potential loss of the South Amazon rainforest; and the socioeconomic impact of the rise in sea levels

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Event Calendar: Wild, Wild World: Living Dinosaurs | American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.

This Saturday, December 5, bring the whole family to discover why scientists believe birds are actually living dinosaurs. Compare live birds and reptiles with with fossil casts of dinosaurs here at the Museum. 11 am and 1 pm. Tickets at amnh.org.

American Museum of Natural History | SciCafe

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The American Museum of Natural History presents SciCafe,a new free series exploring the latest in science news.

Don't miss SciCafe tonight at 7 pm! Rob DeSalle, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at AMNH, and Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville, will kick-off the holiday season with a discussion on what makes us naughty or nice.

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Smithsonian Education Online Conference on Climate Change
20 Sep 2009, 6:14 pm

From September 29 through October 1, 2009, the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies will present Climate Change, a Smithsonian Education Online Conference.

Through live presentations and a moderated Q&A forum, Smithsonian scientists, curators, and educators will explore Smithsonian research and collections related to the evidence, impact, and response to climate change. They’ll look at the issues surrounding climate change from the perspectives of science, history, and art and demonstrate resources for use in the classroom.

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Climate Change: The Threat To Life and A New Energy Future

The American Museum of Natural History announced today a major new exhibition, Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future, that will examine one of the most pressing scientific issues of our time—the massive, human-induced warming of Earth, a phenomenon that could lead to d...