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Staying current for Chapter 6 { Energy Flow Contents } See also: GSS Climate Change. 2025-09-18. What Makes Beaver Ponds Bigger? By Mack Baysinger, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: For the first time, researchers are able to add hydrologic estimates to find where reintroducing beavers could best benefit a watershed and the humans who live within it. In recent […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-10-08. Magnetic “Switchback” Detected near Earth for First Time. By Sarah Stanley, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In recent years, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has given us a close-up look at the Sun. Among the probe’s revelations was the presence of […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Energy Flow Contents } California Earthquake animation site at USGS 2025-12-17. Ancient tectonic plates are oozing along Earth’s core. By James Dinneen, Science. Excerpt: using records from more than 5000 earthquakes, researchers have made what they say is the best picture yet of the layer 2900 kilometers below Earth’s surface […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 See articles from: {2008–2020}-{2002–2007}. See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2025-12-10. Replenishing sapped groundwater could trigger small earthquakes. By Hannah Richter, Science. Excerpt: A boom in aquifer injection projects could unlock long-quiet faults. …along the banks of the James River, 10 stainless steel pipes […]

{ 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 } 2025-12-04. Does Your Building Have a Fabric Recycling Bin? It Should. By Joyce Cohen, The New York Times. Excerpt: As part of a little-known Department of Sanitation program, New York City buildings with […]

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 […]