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Staying current for Chapter 8 Articles from 2020 Stay current index page for Chapter 8. { Climate Change Contents } 2020-12-23. This experimental vineyard seeks to save wine from climate change. By Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post. Excerpt: French scientists are hard at work, trying to find varieties of grapes that will thrive in warm weather…. […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 Articles from 2013 to 2019 To Stay current index page for Chapter 8 { Climate Change Contents } 2019-12-27. What Do You Get When You Cross a Thunderstorm with a Wildfire? By Jenessa Duncombe, Eos/AGU.  [https://eos.org/articles/what-do-you-get-when-you-cross-a-thunderstorm-with-a-wildfire] Excerpt: There are few things more ominous than a looming thundercloud. Add a wildfire to […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 Articles from 2006–2012 Stay current index page for Chapter 8 { Climate Change Contents } 2012 December 07. Global Change session at American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, titled The Anthropocene: Confronting the Prospects of a +4C World: (2 hours) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98M4i6tNgJ8&feature=player_embeddedIncludes (session GC51H): 01. Temporal and spatial scales of an Anthropocene Series – Jan […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { Climate Change Contents } See non-chronological resources (bottom of page). 2025-06-05. Local predictions of climate change are hazy. But cities need answers fast. By Paul Voosen, Science. Excerpt: Like many cities around the world, Austin is now facing questions about how to build and adapt for a changing climate. […]

Staying current for Chapter 6. { Climate Change Contents } See non-chronological resources (bottom of page). 2024-06-06. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging “faster than ever” to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say. By Li Cohen, CBS News. Excerpt: Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human […]

Staying current for Chapter 5. { Climate Change Contents } See Non-chronological resources for this chapter (bottom of page). 2023-02-06. Battling Lava and Snowstorms, 2.5 Miles Above the Pacific. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/climate/mauna-loa-carbon-dioxide-eruption.html] By Raymond Zhong, The New York Times. Excerpt: Two and a half miles above the Pacific, with the combined exhalations of a vast swath of […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } The Mysteries of the Cosmos – a panel discussion with astronomers Phil Plait, Mike Brown, Debra Fischer, Andrea Ghez, and Saul Perlmutter. Topics: newly discovered solar system objects; the black hole in our galaxy; expansion of our universe. 2025-02-28. Stars made from only primordial gas […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2008–present NASA’s Kepler mission (to find Earth size planets in the habitable zones of stars): see also PASS Kepler page, archive of Kepler News stories, and kepler.nasa.gov (Kepler education website).  For the Exoplanet Transits investigation, data to generate a light curves for various exoplanets: 2025-04-17. […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } See also articles from 2008–2020. Asteroid visualization (YouTube) – an animation of the solar system showing asteroid discoveries starting in 1980. Earth Crossers are Red. Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow. All Others are Green. Articles from 2021–present 2025-05-23. China sets out to […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2006–present 2025-01-21. Early supernovae may have filled the universe with planet-forming dust. By Hannah Richter, Science. Excerpt: “Dust is the building block of the universe,” says Melissa Shahbandeh, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Over millions of years, specks […]