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Staying current for Chapter 1 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2025-10-30. Rocky Mountain National Park wants its beavers back. By Hank Lacey, SFgate. Excerpt: On Rocky Mountain National Park’s less-visited west side, the Kawuneeche Valley looks different than it used to. Where wetlands shimmered, the autumn light now bathes […]

{ Ecosystem Change Contents } { All GSS Books } 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 Endangered Species Act.” National Geographic. Vol. […]

ECOSYSTEM CHANGE is about the interdependence of all living things and the nonliving environment. It is also about how human activities are changing ecosystems around the world. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Stay Current 1. Earth Alive! 1.1 Make a Model Ecosystem Chapter 1 2. Energy Through the System Chapter 2 3. Studying Desert Ecosystems […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-02-10. Persistent pesticides. By Science [Advisor]. Excerpt: It’s been more than 60 years since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring woke the world to the dangers of pesticides. But have countries really stopped spraying them? Clearly not, finds a new analysis published last week […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-12. What’s the catch of the day? By Joseph Travis and David Reznick, Science. Excerpt: The inexorable warming of Earth and its oceans will upend many biological systems on which humans depend. A large question looming on this horizon is what food will […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-04. North American birds: from decline to free fall. By Science Advisor. Excerpt: North American bird populations have been falling for decades. But a new study in Science suggests something even more troubling: In many places, those declines are accelerating. Using data from 1033 North American […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-06-13. Fallowed Fields Are Fueling California’s Dust Problem. By Andrew Chapman, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: California produces more than a third of the vegetables and three quarters of the fruits and nuts in the United States. But water constraints are leaving […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-11. A genetic trick helps this all-female fish species escape evolutionary doom. By Phie Jacobs, Science. Excerpt: The Amazon molly, which reproduces asexually, has survived—and thrived—at least 10 times longer than predicted by evolutionary theory. …Talk about an odd […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-11. Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction. By Franz Lidz, The New York Times. Excerpt: …in French Polynesia, where well-meaning ecological interventions have backfired with catastrophic precision. During the 1980s, Partula snails, a […]

Staying current for Chapter 2  { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-10-23. After centuries of trauma, Montana’s Blackfeet Nation turns to an old friend for food sovereignty: bison. By Aaron Agosto, The Guardian. Excerpt: For the Blackfeet, bison are as much a source of food as they are a part of their cultural identity. Before the […]