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Staying current for Chapter 1 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2025-03-06. Butterfly populations are plummeting across the United States. By Erik Stokstad, Science. Excerpt: The American lady (Vanessa virginiensis) is one of the most common and widespread butterflies across the United States. But over the past 2 decades, this […]

{ 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 } 2025-06-30. Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off. By Joanna Thompson, Science. Excerpt: U.S. beekeepers had a disastrous winter. Between June 2024 and January 2025, a full 62% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States died, […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-09-19. Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle. By Max Bearak, The New York Times. Excerpt: The high seas, the vast waters beyond any one country’s jurisdiction, cover nearly half the planet. On Friday, a hard-fought […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-07-21. Raptors A to Z – an eclectic introduction to birds of prey – https://raptorsarethesolution.org/raptors-a-to-z/ 2025-01-07. The Fleet-Winged Ghosts of Greenland. By  Caroline Van Hemert, bioGraphic. Excerpt: …Peregrine falcons hold near-mythical appeal in our collective imagination, and for good reason. Topping out at speeds of […]

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 } 2025-09-26. Next generation gene editors engineered to significantly reduce error rate. By Julia Robinson, Chemistry World. Excerpt: The error rate of a promising gene-editing tool can be reduced up to 60-fold by introducing mutations that change where the system’s […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-08-27. Study shows how the human pelvis was reshaped for upright walking. By Colin Barras, Science. Excerpt: Comparisons of pelvic development in human and primate embryos reveals key steps in human evolution…. Full article at https://www.science.org/content/article/study-shows-how-human-pelvis-was-reshaped-upright-walking. 2025-06-26. ‘Tree of […]

Staying current for Chapter 2  { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2025-09-04. Where the buffalo roam. By ScienceAdviser. Excerpt: Bison are … not the free-roaming furry beasts they once were; today they live mostly in conservation herds and as livestock following 19th-century U.S. policies to target bison and Indigenous communities. Researchers wanted to examine the ecological […]