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AC5C. Stay Current—Color, Temperature & Age of Stars
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 […]
AC4C. Stay Current—Fathoming Huge Distances
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, […]
AC3C. Stay Current—Cosmic Engines
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. […]
AC2C. Stay Current—Astronomer’s Tools
Staying current for Chapter 2 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2026-09-25. New space telescope will reopen astronomers’ view of the far-infrared. By Daniel Clery, Science. Excerpt: NASA has selected a far-infrared space telescope to explore the faint, cool glow of gas and dust that fuel star formation and coalesce into planets. […]
AC1C. Stay Current—Cosmic Cataclysms
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 2025-12-02. Planet-Eating Stars Hint at Earth’s Ultimate Fate. By Matthew R. Francis, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means […]
Bibliography for A New World View
{ 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: […]
AN6C. Stay Current—Towards a Sustainable World
2026-09-17. Future forests. By Katie Langin, Science. Excerpt: As the planet warms and forests burn, can we replant them with new trees that will thrive in the decades ahead? …there are signs that forest managers can’t count on natural recovery. In the western United States, researchers have documented little natural regeneration within many severely burned […]
AN5C. Stay Current—Losing Tropical Rainforests
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 […]
AN4C. Stay Current—Field Trip to Wind River
Staying current for Chapter 4 { A New World View Contents } 2026-08-18. Forest Service to End Protection for 45 Million Acres of Forest. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: The U.S. Forest Service has moved forward with a rule to withdraw protections from 45 million acres of pristine national forests by rescinding the […]
AN3C. Stay Current—Case Study: The Headwaters Controversy
Staying current for Chapter 3 { A New World View Contents } 2026-07-09. The owl wars. How much killing will it take to save the spotted owl? By Warren Cornwall, Science. Excerpt: It’s a testament to the topsy-turvy world of owls in the Pacific Northwest that a scientist and avowed owl lover finds himself toting […]