Directory

Climate site directory

Every climate topic on climates.im will get its own site. Climate zones and climate change come first. Here’s the plan for the first ten.

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This hub, climates.im. The climate sites below will be listed as open, with a link, on the day each one goes live.

Coming soon

• Climate zonesFirst wavezones.climates.im

  Planned: the world’s climate zones, the Köppen letters A to E, and why the same latitude can feel so different.

  Coming soon
• Climate changeFirst waveclimate-change.climates.im

  Planned: how and why Earth’s climate is changing, what the measurements show, and what the 1.5 °C goal means.

  Coming soon
• Desertsdeserts.climates.im

  Planned: hot and cold deserts, from the Sahara to the Atacama, and how plants and animals live with so little rain.

  Coming soon
• Rainforestsrainforests.climates.im

  Planned: the wet, warm tropical rainforests of the Amazon, Africa and Southeast Asia, layer by layer.

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• Polar climatespolar.climates.im

  Planned: Antarctica, the Arctic and the treeless tundra, the coldest and some of the driest places on Earth.

  Coming soon
• Monsoonsmonsoons.climates.im

  Planned: the winds that change direction with the seasons, and the summer rains they bring to South Asia and beyond.

  Coming soon
• Ice agesice-ages.climates.im

  Planned: the great ice sheets of the past, the last glacial maximum and the Little Ice Age.

  Coming soon
• Seasonsseasons.climates.im

  Planned: why we have seasons, solstices and equinoxes, and why it isn’t about how close Earth is to the Sun.

  Coming soon
• El Niñoel-nino.climates.im

  Planned: El Niño and La Niña, the warm and cool swings of the Pacific Ocean, and how they reach weather around the world.

  Coming soon
• Cloudsclouds.climates.im

  Planned: how clouds form, the high, middle and low families, and how to name the clouds over your own house.

  Coming soon

How we chose the ten

We started from England’s national curriculum for geography, which asks pupils at Key Stage 2 to understand climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, and at Key Stage 3 to study weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present. Climate zones and climate change come first. The other eight cover the big climate types, the seasons, the Pacific swings of El Niño and the clouds overhead. Wild weather events are left to our sister weather hub.

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