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Title: Aurora Borealis

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  • Artist: Frederic Edwin Church
  • Year: 1865
  • Topic Keyword(s): E.g., Earth & the Solar System, Earth Systems
  • Description: Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865, oil on canvas, 56 x 83 1/2 in. (142.3 x 212.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Eleanor Blodgett, 1911.4.1
  • Related Lessons/Units: Link(s) to lessons/units where artwork is featured
  • Related Data: Link(s) to data tagged with the same topics
  • Usage Rights: Creative Commons 0 (Free to Use)

Source/Link to Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Title: Aviary

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  • Artist: Alexis Rockman
  • Year: 1992
  • Topic Keyword(s): Biodiversity, Climate, Ecology, Genetic Mutations
  • Description: Alexis Rockman, American, born 1962, Aviary, 1992. Oil on wood. 203.2 x 172.7 cm (80 x 68 in.) Private Collection.
  • Related Lessons/Units: Link(s) to lessons/units where artwork is featured
  • Related Data: Link(s) to data tagged with the same topics
  • Usage Rights: With special permission for this project from the artist, Alexis Rockman.

Source/Link to Source: Princeton University Art Museum

Title: The Coit Tower Mural (left panel)

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Source/Link to Source: Maxine Albro

Title: Watershed

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Source/Link to Source: Honoring the Future

Title: The Healing Walk

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Source/Link to Source: Ben Powless

Title: Lake Squam from Red Hill

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  • Artist: (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1833–1905 Newport, Rhode Island)
  • Year: 1874
  • Topic Keyword(s): Climate Change, Weather & Climate
  • Description: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on light gray-green wove paper. The view of island-studded Lake Squam from Red Hill in New Hampshire was a well-worn tourist staple by the time Richards executed this radiant prospect at sunset. The picture hints at his admiration for the sky spectacles in oil of New York landscape painter Frederic Church.
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  • Usage Rights: Public Domain Image

Source/Link to Source: Lake Squam from Red Hill

Title: Ethiopia during drought

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Source/Link to Source: Oxfam East Africa

Title: Painting "Kansas Farming" at U.S. Courthouse, Wichita, KansasClick on the image to open a full screen lightbox that can be copied to your desktop.

  • Artist: Richard Haines
  • Year: 1936
  • Topic Keyword(s): Climate Change, Weather & Climate
  • Description: Oil painting measuring 4' 8" x 10' 6". This mural, commissioned by the US Dept. of Treasury's post office mural project, depicts various aspects of rural life and farm production, focusing on the importance of urbanization, industrialization, and technology to the economic growth of the region. Rolling hills ripe with the bounty of the fall harvest comprise the idealized rural landscape.
  • Related Lessons/Units: Human Impacts on the Environment: Water Management in the Colorado River Basin
  • Related Data:
    Population Density
    Dams and Reservoirs
    Crop Land
    Pasture Land
  • Usage Rights: No known restriction
  • Photographed by Carol M. Highsmith (2002) -Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Source/Link to Source: Library of Congress

Title: Boats in Mousehole harbour Cornwall England

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Source/Link to Source: Shutterstock

Title: Filming swabbing bats, collecting air samples

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Source/Link to Source: Creative Commons

Title: By measuring the area of clustered bats, biologists estimate the numbers of hibernating bats.

Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) survey in Ray's Cave, 2007.

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Source/Link to Source: Public domain

Title: A  Solar Eclipse seen from Earth's Moon

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  • Artist: W. Kranz
  • Year: 1898
  • Topic Keyword(s): E.g., Earth & the Solar System, Earth Systems, Eclipse
  • Description: A  Solar Eclipse seen from Earth's Moon by W. Kranz in "The Cosmic System: Astronomy for Everyone" by M. Wilhelm Meyer (1898)
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  • Usage Rights: Public Domain

 

Title: The Great Comet of 1680 Over Rotterdam (Staartster (komeet) boven Rotterdam)

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  • Artist: Lieve Verschuier
  • Year: 1680
  • Topic Keyword(s): E.g., Earth & the Solar System, Earth Systems, Comet
  • Description: Lieve Verschuier, Staartster (komeet) boven Rotterdam, 1680, oil on panel,  10 x 12.7 in. (25.5 cm x 32.5 cm), Museum Rotterdam, 11028-A-B
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  • Related Data: Link(s) to data tagged with the same topics
  • Usage Rights: Creative Commons 0 (Free to Use)

Source/Link to Source: Museum Rotterdam

Title: Drought

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Source/Link to Source: National Gallery of Art

Title: Dust Bowl Survivors

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  • Artist: Alexandre Hogue
  • Year: 1936
  • Topic Keyword(s): Human Activity & Impacts, Weather & Climate
  • Description: Oil on canvas, Musée de la cooperation franco-américan, Blérancourt, France. Drought Survivors confronts the viewer with a tractor buried in sand, barbed wires which no longer enclose anything, a dead tree under a sky without cloud. The human beings have also disappeared. The only ones alive are a prairie dog and a rattlesnake. Art historian Lea Rossen DeLong points out the irony of these “survivors.” The prairie dog and the rattlesnake “were exactly the two creatures most despised by the farmers trying to cultivate the plains.” (De Long, quoted by Hartviksen, 2015, p. 21).
  • Related Lessons/Units: Drought: Examining the Causes and Effects of Precipitation Shortage
  • Related Data: 
    Drought Intensity
    Freshwater Withdrawals
    Statewide Maximum Temperature Ranks
    Statewide Precipitation Ranks
  • Usage Rights: Public Domain

Source/Link to Source: Arthur Digital Museum

Title: Drought

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Source/Link to Source: Missouri Remembers

Title: Helicopter Hands

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  • Artist: Rolland Golden
  • Year: 2008
  • Topic Keyword(s): Human Activity & Impacts, Weather & Climate
  • Description: “Helicopter Hands,” acrylic painting, The Historic New Orleans Collection, acquisition made possible by the Diana Helis Henry Art Fund of The Helis Foundation; joint ownership with the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Fund, 2008.0109.8. A man stands in the doorway of his flooded home; its window is broken and a blue shutter hangs askew from its hinges. The shadows of upraised hands and arms appear on his home, as though rising from the water. Shards of glass frame the scene, as though the viewer is looking through a broken window.
  • Related Lessons/Units: Earth's Changing Atmosphere: Human Impacts and Climate Change
  • Related Data:
    Temperature Anomaly (July 2023)
    Nightime Lights
    Hurricane Tracks
    Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
  • Usage Rights: Permission for image use given for this project by The Historic New Orleans Collection
  • Source/Link to Source: The Historic New Orleans Collection

Title: The Eruption of Vesuvius

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