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Staying current for Chapter 6 { Energy Flow Contents } See also: GSS Climate Change. 2025-04-02. Dying coral reefs could slow climate change. By Elise Cutts, Science. Excerpt: VIENNA— Climate change is causing the oceans to get warmer and more acidic, making it harder for corals to build and maintain their mineral skeletons. Eventually, reefs will literally […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-08-01. A Solar Wind Squeeze May Have Strengthened Jovian Aurorae. By Sarah Stanley, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Spectacular aurorae dance and shimmer nearly continuously at Jupiter’s poles. …Sometimes, Jupiter’s aurorae grow much brighter for hours or days at a time. …clarifying […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Energy Flow Contents } California Earthquake animation site at USGS 2025-08-04. Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface. By Robin George Andrews, Quantamagazine. Excerpt: All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 See articles from: {2008–2020}-{2002–2007}. See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-07-17. Google alerts offer quick, cheap earthquake warnings. By Nazeefa Ahmed, Science. Excerpt: On 6 February 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake violently shook Turkey and Syria…. By the time the aftershocks had ended, some […]

{ Energy Flow Contents } { All GSS Books } 2007 November 1. Is the ocean carbon sink sinking? RealClimate website. –David. Excerpt: The past few weeks and years have seen a bushel of papers finding that the natural world, in particular perhaps the ocean, is getting fed up with absorbing our CO2… evidence that the hypothesized carbon cycle […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 { Energy Flow Contents } 2001 November. Birth of a Large Iceberg in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica [223kb PDF NASA Lithograph] This lithograph shows the break-off of a large tabular iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. This event occurred between November 4th and 12th, 2001, and provides powerful evidence […]

{ 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 } 2025-08-13. Waste not, want not. By ScienceAdviser. Excerpt: Biochar, a carbon sequestering charcoal used in soil, made from solid human excrement could help with fertilizer shortages and reduce pollution. “Talking about sewage is […]

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 […]