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Staying current for Chapter 8 See Non-chronological Resources. { Energy Flow Contents } 2024-10-10. El Niño fingered as likely culprit in record 2023 temperatures. By Paul Voosen, Science. Excerpt: For the past year, alarm bells have been going off in climate science: Last year’s average global temperature was so high, shooting up nearly 0.3°C above […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological Resources. { Energy Flow Contents } -•-2025-04-21. The New Tornado Alley Has Been Hyperactive this Year. By Mark Fischetti, Scientific American. Excerpt: By last Saturday, the National Weather Service reported that 552 tornadoes had occurred in the U.S. this year—well above the average total of 337 for the […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Energy Flow Contents } Water Cycle movieAtmospheric Circulation – 18 multimedia resources from Teachers’ Domain Earth and Space Science multimedia resources (movies and interactives). See also: GSS Climate Change. 2025-01-08. Darker, Less Cloudy Earth Contributed to Record Heat. By Nathaniel Scharping, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In a string of ever-hotter years, 2023 stood […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2024-05-13. The biggest disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field in more than 20 years dazzled onlookers the world over. By MICHAEL GRESHKO, Science. Excerpt: Earth got its bell rung this past weekend, sucker-punched by the Sun itself in the […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Energy Flow Contents } California Earthquake animation site at USGS Deep Carbon Observatory 2025-02-10. Earth’s inner core might harbor volcanoes and landslides. By Hannah Richter, Science. Excerpt: More than 5000 kilometers beneath our feet, Earth’s iron inner core seems to be spinning, growing, and occasionally speeding up or slowing down. It’s […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 See articles from: {2008–2020}-{2002–2007}. See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-04-28. Lava alert: New detector uses fiber-optic cables to predict volcanic activity. By ScienceAdvisor. Excerpt: On Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula…lava is a constant threat—the residents in and around Grindavík have dealt with numerous eruptions since […]

{ Energy Flow Contents } { All GSS Books } 2007 November 1. Is the ocean carbon sink sinking? RealClimate website. –David. Excerpt: The past few weeks and years have seen a bushel of papers finding that the natural world, in particular perhaps the ocean, is getting fed up with absorbing our CO2… evidence that the hypothesized carbon cycle […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 { Energy Flow Contents } 2001 November. Birth of a Large Iceberg in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica [223kb PDF NASA Lithograph] This lithograph shows the break-off of a large tabular iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. This event occurred between November 4th and 12th, 2001, and provides powerful evidence […]

Chapter 9 { Energy Flow Contents } It’s a sunny spring day. Lush green grass from winter rainstorms carpets the hillside, punctuated here and there with ancient oak trees. Zooming in on one of the trees we see that it’s alive with hundreds of oak caterpillars, munching holes in the leaves. It’s a feast day […]

Chapter 8 { Energy Flow Contents } In the Peruvian hamlet of Chato Chico, after weeks of rain, Isaias Ipanaqué Silva watched the Piura River rising more than he had ever seen. Every several years, for as long as anyone in the village could remember, heavier than normal rainfall had come.  But never like this—five […]