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LC8C. Stay Current—Highs and Lows Over the Past 750 Million Years
Staying current for Chapter 8 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Life and Climate Contents } 2025-07-15. Molecular fossils offer first glimpse of how life survived Snowball Earth. By Elise Cutts, Science. Excerpt: Several times in Earth’s history, the planet froze over. Ice blanketed the world from pole to equator, and temperatures plummeted as […]
LC7C. Stay Current—Earth’s Shifting Crust
Stay current for chapter 7 { Life and Climate Contents } 2026-01-16. Survival on the move. By Science Advisor. Excerpt: Scientists suspected that the arrangement of continents and islands—a concept called paleogeography—might have played an important role in past mass extinctions. To find out, a team combined analyses of more than 325,000 fossil invertebrates with […]
LC6C. Stay Current—How and When Did Complex Life Begin?
Stay current for chapter 6 { Life and Climate Contents } Understanding Evolution – a one-stop source for information on evolution. 2019-11-14. Alien genes from bacteria helped plants conquer the land. By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science Magazine. 2024-11-13. Best evidence yet that “Snowball Earth” saw ice cover the entire globe. By Evrim Yazgin, COSMOS. Excerpt: More than 700 million […]
LC5C. Stay Current—The Origin of Our Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere
Stay current for chapter 5 { Life and Climate Contents } 2026-03-31. How did ancient bugs get so big? The prevailing theory may be wrong. By aylor Mitchell Brown, Science. Excerpt: Flying insect respiratory systems suggest abundant oxygen can’t explain ancient gigantism. About 300 million years ago, giant dragonflylike insects with half-meter wing spans buzzed […]
LC4C. Stay Current—The Beginning of Life on Earth
Stay current for chapter 4 { Life and Climate Contents } 2026-04-02. Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals. By EurekaAlert AAAS. Excerpt: A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved […]
LC2C. Stay Current—Where Does Earth’s Atmosphere Come From?
Staying current with chapter 2 { Life and Climate Contents } 2016-05-09. Earth’s ancient atmosphere was half as thick as it is today. By Roland Pease, Science. Excerpt: …very little is known about how thick Earth’s ancient atmosphere once was. Now, a new study suggests that Earth’s atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago was between a quarter to […]
CC10C. Staying Current—What Do You Think About Global Climate Change?
Staying current for Chapter 10 See non-chronological resources Articles from: {2023}-{2022}-{2021}-{2020}-{2012–2019}-{2008–2011}-{2001–2007} { Climate Change Contents } Articles from 2024–2025 (most recent) 2026-03-25. US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian. Excerpt: The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past […]
CC10C. 2020-What Do You Think About Global Climate Change?
Staying current for Chapter 10 Articles from 2020 Stay current index page for Chapter 10 { Climate Change Contents } 2022-08-20. Diet for a hotter climate: five plants that could help feed the world. [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/20/ancient-crops-climate-crisis-amaranth-fonio-cowpeas-taro-kernza] By Cecilia Nowell, The Guardian. Excerpt: Over the course of human history, scientists believe that humans have cultivated more than 6,000 […]
CC10C. 2012-What Do You Think About Global Climate Change?
Staying current for Chapter 10 Articles from 2012–2019 Stay current index page for Chapter 10 { Climate Change Contents } 2019-12-29. Our Cherished Rivers Are Under Threat. By Macarena Soler, Monti Aguirre and Juan Pablo Orrego, The New York Times (Opinion). [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/opinion/climate-change-hydroelectric-dam.html] Excerpt: … rivers, like many worldwide, have been threatened by dam projects that aim […]
CC10C. 2001-2007-What Do You Think About Global Climate Change?
Staying current for Chapter 10 Articles from 2001–2007 Stay current index page for Chapter 10 { Climate Change Contents } 2007 December 10. Al Gore’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/read-al-gores-nobel-prize_n_76054] 2007 December 3. Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report. By PETER GELLING and ANDREW C. REVKIN, NY Times. Excerpt: JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 2 – Thousands of government officials, […]