Category: Losing Biodiversity

{ Losing Biodiversity Contents } { All GSS Books } The “green patches” found in school gardens, city parks, backyards, and travel corridors are potential habitats for native species of plants and animals. In this activity, you will record evidence of species diversity for an urban habitat that has vegetation. Your habitat study will provide […]

Chapter 1 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } Biodiversity is the sum total of life forms that exist today and the habitats that support them. This diversity of organisms, or species, includes bacteria and viruses, as well as dandelions, mushrooms, and mosquitoes. The endangered habitats that support life range from tide pools and deserts to peat bogs […]

{ Losing Biodiversity Contents } { All GSS Books } The following references are available in most libraries: Bryant, Jeannette, ed.  Conservation Directory: A list of Organizations, Agencies, and Officials Concerned with Natural Resource Use and Management. National Wildlife Federation, 1995. Carson, Rachel.  Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.  Chadwick, Douglas H. “Dead or Alive: The […]

LOSING BIODIVERSITY is about the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions, beginning with the case study of the buffalo. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Stay Current 1. Seeking Biodiversity 1.1 Biodiversity Assessment Chapter 1 2. The Trail Back from Near Extinction 2.1 Estimate Number of […]

Staying current for Chapter 12 { Life and Climate Contents } 2025-08-29. Stalagmites reveal devastating droughts that helped spur Maya breakdown. By Taylor Mitchell Brown, Science. Excerpt: About 1200 years ago, social strife and upheaval shook the Maya world. Sites across southern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala saw their populations dwindle. …Scientists have long puzzled over […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { Life and Climate Contents } 2025-05-15. An Ancient Warming Event May Have Lasted Longer Than We Thought. By Rebecca Owen, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C over 100,000 or more years. Between 3,000 and 20,000 petagrams of carbon […]

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