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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 } See also: GSS Climate Change. 2025-04-02. Dying coral reefs could slow climate change. By Elise Cutts, Science. Excerpt: VIENNA— Climate change is causing the oceans to get warmer and more acidic, making it harder for corals to build and maintain their mineral skeletons. Eventually, reefs will literally […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-08-01. A Solar Wind Squeeze May Have Strengthened Jovian Aurorae. By Sarah Stanley, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Spectacular aurorae dance and shimmer nearly continuously at Jupiter’s poles. …Sometimes, Jupiter’s aurorae grow much brighter for hours or days at a time. …clarifying […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Energy Flow Contents } California Earthquake animation site at USGS 2025-08-04. Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface. By Robin George Andrews, Quantamagazine. Excerpt: All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 See articles from: {2008–2020}-{2002–2007}. See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-07-17. Google alerts offer quick, cheap earthquake warnings. By Nazeefa Ahmed, Science. Excerpt: On 6 February 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake violently shook Turkey and Syria…. By the time the aftershocks had ended, some […]

{ 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 […]