Climate Change

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Articles and videos

A monarch butterfly perches on a purple blazing star flower on a sunny day. Black-eyed Susans and other prairie plants are in the background.

Climate Crisis Report: Grim, with a Glimmer of Hope

An aerial view of a waterside settlement in the Peruvian rainforest.

How can we protect enough biodiversity to sustain life on Earth?

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Where Your Water Comes From—And Why You Should Care

Exhibit Halls

Two people stand in the Restoring Earth exhibition, looking at a peregrine falcon specimen.

Abbott Hall of Conservation: Restoring Earth

People

A man with short gray hair and a baseball cap stands in front of green leafy plants

John Bates

Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams

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Douglas Stotz

Two people standing in front of rock wall.

Bruce Patterson

Press Releases

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It would take 23 million years for evolution to replace Madagascar’s endangered mammals “Now or never” for preventing extinction

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The evolution of Asia’s mammals was dictated by ancient climate change and rising mountains

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Fossils of a saber-toothed top predator reveal a scramble for dominance leading up to “the Great Dying”

Related Areas

T. rex fossil lit up with green and purple lighting.

Fossil Vertebrates

Media for Mazon Creek Fossil Invertebrates

Fossil Plants