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Staying current for Chapter 5 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2011–present 2011-05-25. NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston. Kepler News. Excerpt: On the first day of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Boston, the NASA Kepler team held a […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2025-03-28. [Video] Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way. By ESA – European Space Agency. For over a decade, ESA’s Gaia mission has mapped our galaxy with stunning precision—rewriting the story of the Milky Way. As its mission enters a new phase, […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2005–present 2025-06-11. Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles. By European Space Agency (ESA). Excerpt: Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2025-08-21. The Vera Rubin Observatory is ready to revolutionize astronomy. By Lisa Grossman, Science News. Excerpt: Perched on a high, flat-topped mountain called Cerro Pachón, the Rubin Observatory …can investigate some of the universe’s slowest, most eternal processes, such as the assembly […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } SEE ALSO: Life & Climate Chapter 9, What Happened to the Dinosaurs? and General Astronomy Resources Articles from 2002 – present 2025-09-09. How an Interstellar Interloper Spurred Astronomers into Action. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: On 1 July 2025, astronomers detected a visitor […]

{ A New World View Contents } { All GSS Books } Our sources, categorized by topic Global Environmental Change Brown, Lester R., Building a Sustainable Society, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981. Brown, Lester R., Flavin, Christopher, and Postel, Sandra, Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy, New York, London: […]

2025-07-21. Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests. By Rebecca Dzombak, The New York Times. Excerpt: In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. …Extreme forest-fire years are becoming more common because of climate change, new research suggests. …The area […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 { A New World View Contents } Non-chronological items: Canopy in the Clouds – A project that uses immersive multimedia from the tropical montane cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica as a platform for earth and life science education. Includes 26 lessons on topics ranging from science process skills to soil […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { A New World View Contents } 2022-04-29. A Lidar’s-Eye View of How Forests Are Faring. By Van R. Kane,  Liz Van Wagtendonk and  Andrew Brenner, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Success in Yosemite is driving the wider use of lidar surveys to support forest health and wildfire resilience, study wildlife habitats, and monitor water resources. […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { A New World View Contents } 2015-12-10. The northern spotted owl is in danger again. And this time it’s from another owl. By Darryl Fears, the Washington Post. For GSS A New World View chapter 3. Excerpt: …Across that gorgeous emerald range, federally protected northern spotted owls and invasive barred […]