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EF6C. Stay Current—How Does Energy Flow in the Atmosphere?
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 […]
EF5C. Stay Current—What Is Light?
Staying current for Chapter 5 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2026-07-15. Scandinavian radar array will probe mysteries of the northern lights. By Richard Stone, Science. Excerpt: Svalbard in Norway—The images captured in 2017 looked wrong. Against the pale winter sky above the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, tiny green […]
EF3C. Stay Current—What Heats the Earth’s Interior?
Staying current for Chapter 3 { Energy Flow Contents } California Earthquake animation site at USGS 2026-05-12. Eastern Africa Is Splitting Apart, but Not Where We Expected. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: For roughly 45 million years, the eastern section of the African continental plate has been slowly pulling apart. Like a giant zipper […]
EF2C. Stay Current—Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?
Staying current for Chapter 2 See articles from: {2008–2020}-{2002–2007}. See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Energy Flow Contents } 2026-08-04. With lucky dive, scientists get a front-row view of the creation of Earth’s surface. By Paul Voosen, Science. Excerpt: In April 2025, Alvin, the legendary deep-sea submersible, was on its 17th sortie at […]
EF2C. 2002-2007 Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?
{ 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 […]
EF1C. Stay Current—What Is Energy?
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 […]
Bibliography for Energy Flow
{ 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
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 […]
EC7C. Stay Current—Neighborhood and Global Stewardship
Staying current for Chapter 7 See also articles from{2008–2021} and {1998–2007} See non-chronological resources for this chapter. { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2026-08-16. Cash Cow. By Inside Climate podcast. Excerpt: In this episode, co-host Jake Bolster sits down with reporters Georgina Gustin and Lisa Sorg to talk about the wide-ranging impacts of how America fattens […]
EC7C. 1998–2007 Neighborhood and Global Stewardship
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 […]