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{ Energy Flow Contents } { All GSS Books } Alvarez, Walter, Alvarez, Luis Michel, Helen, and Asaro, Frank, Science, June 6, 1980. Alvarez, Walter and Asaro, Frank, and Courtillot, Vincent E., “What Caused the Mass Extinction?” Scientific American, Vol. 263, No. 4, page 76-92, October, 1990. Armbruster, Ann, and Taylor, Elizabeth A., Tornadoes, New […]

ENERGY FLOW is about how energy moves through the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living things. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Stay Current 1. What Is Energy? Chapter 1 2. Why Do Volcanoes Erupt? 2.1. Subduction Zone Map Chapter 2 3. What Heat’s the Earth’s Interior? 3.1 Convection (from Life and Climate chapter 7) Chapter 3 […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 See also articles from{2008–2021} and {1998–2007} See non-chronological resources for this chapter. { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2025-12-18. Keep Omaha Beautiful Highlights Solutions Plastic Lumber. By ruth richter, First Star Recycling. Excerpt: We’re excited to celebrate the launch of Keep Omaha Beautiful’s new webpage highlighting how orange bag plastics collected […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 Articles from 1998–2007 Stay current index page for Chapter 7 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2007 December 22. As Cars Hit More Animals on Roads, Toll Rises. By JIM ROBBINS, NY Times. Excerpt: BOZEMAN, Mont. – On a dark highway near Anchorage, Specialist Steven Cavanaugh of the Army, who had survived 300 […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 See also articles from{2009–2021}-{2002–2008} { Ecosystem Change Contents } Excellent video (15 minutes): Mountain Lions in Nebraska (2011)  Latest articles (2022–) 2025-12-04. When Does Rainfall Become Recharge? By Stacey Priestley, Andy Baker, Margaret Shanafield, Wendy Timms and Martin Andersen, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Counting drips in caves is helping to reveal how much precipitation is needed to start […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 Articles from 2002–2008 Stay current index page for Chapter 6 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2008 Fall. Delta Blues. By Barry Yeoman, OnEarth. Excerpt: On this brisk, cloudless day, Tom Zuckerman and I are driving to his duck-hunting club on Rindge Tract, one of the low-slung rural islands that form the nucleus […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2025-06-04. Rivers are leaking ancient carbon back into the atmosphere. By Madeleine Cuff, New Scientist. Excerpt: Rivers around the world are leaking ancient carbon back into the atmosphere. The finding has taken scientists by surprise and suggests human activities are damaging the natural landscape far more […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { Ecosystem Change Contents } See also Staying Current for: GSS Climate Change chapter 8, Losing Biodiversity chapters 5 (Soil, the Living Skin of the Earth), 7 (One Global Ocean), and 8 (Champions of a Sustainable World). 2025-12-08. Tree bark microbes for climate management. By Vincent Gauci, Science. Excerpt: For decades, soil was thought […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2025-12-03. 98% of Gaza’s Tree Cropland Destroyed by Israel. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Maps based on remote sensing analysis could inform remediation efforts by identifying whether agricultural lands were damaged by bombs, debris, or forced displacement of its caretakers…. Full article at […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 { Ecosystem Change Contents } SEE ALSO…Losing Biodiversity 2026-01-06. Earthquakes shake nutrients loose in the deep. By Science Adviser. Excerpt: Eighteen hundred meters below Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, a volcanic ridge lined by hydrothermal vents burbles in the dark. As these vents belch out scalding water rich with iron and other […]