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Staying current for Chapter 6 See also articles from{2009–2021}-{2002–2008} { Ecosystem Change Contents } Excellent video (15 minutes): Mountain Lions in Nebraska (2011)  Latest articles (2022–2023) 2025-01-02. Farmers are abandoning land worldwide. What should happen to it? By Dan Charles, Science. Excerpt: …“This is a worldwide phenomenon,” says Peter Verburg, a land use researcher at the […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 Articles from 2002–2008 Stay current index page for Chapter 6 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2008 Fall. Delta Blues. By Barry Yeoman, OnEarth. Excerpt: On this brisk, cloudless day, Tom Zuckerman and I are driving to his duck-hunting club on Rindge Tract, one of the low-slung rural islands that form the nucleus […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2025-01-24. Antarctic krill vertical migrations modulate seasonal carbon export. By A. J. R. Smith et al, Science. Editor’s summary: Shrimp-like krill constitute the greatest biomass of any living animal: up to 379 million tonnes in the Southern Ocean. Dead krill and their feces sink and are assumed […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { Ecosystem Change Contents } See also: GSS Climate Change chapter 8, Losing Biodiversity chapters 5 (Soil, the Living Skin of the Earth), 7 (One Global Ocean), and 8 (Champions of a Sustainable World). 2025-02-26. Where the Wetlands Are. By Rebecca Owen, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In classic literature, wetlands—ecosystems characterized by permanently or periodically […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { Ecosystem Change Contents } 2023-08-10. Cultural water and Indigenous water science. [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0658] By Erin O’Donnell et al, Science. Excerpt: Water management failings in [Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin] MDB, which is home to more than 40 First Nations who have lived sustainably with water for tens of thousands of years through […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 { Ecosystem Change Contents } SEE ALSO…Losing Biodiversity Chapter 5: Soil, the Living Skin of the Earth  Chapter 7: One Global Ocean  Chapter 8: Champions of a Sustainable World 2021-06-04. [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/rise-and-fall-world-s-largest-lake] – The rise and fall of the world’s largest lake. By Sid Perkins. Science Magazine. Excerpt: When continental plates smashed […]

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 } 2023-12-21. A landmark environmental law looks ahead. [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn3245] By ROBERT L. FISCHMAN , J. B. RUHL, BRENNA R. FORESTER , TANYA M. LAMA, MARTY KARDOS, GRETHEL AGUILAR ROJAS, NICHOLAS A. ROBINSON , PATRICK D. SHIREY , GARY A. LAMBERTI, […], AND YING ZHAO, Science. Excerpt: Late in the winter of 1973, President Richard Nixon signed into law what the Supreme Court would later […]