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{ Losing Biodiversity Contents } { All GSS Books } The following references are available in most libraries: 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 […]

LOSING BIODIVERSITY is about the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions, beginning with the case study of the buffalo. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Stay Current 1. Seeking Biodiversity 1.1 Biodiversity Assessment Chapter 1 2. The Trail Back from Near Extinction 2.1 Estimate Number of […]

Staying current for Chapter 11 { Ozone Contents } 2026-06-04. Ozone from wildfire plumes increases mortality. By Benjamin de Foy, Science. Excerpt: …increases in wildfires have caused continent-wide smoke plumes that contain harmful particulate matter, such as dust and soot, and precursors for ozone formation near Earth’s surface. Exposure to ozone can cause chronic respiratory diseases […]

Staying current for Chapter 10 { Ozone Contents } 2024-06-17. What Happens in the Troposphere Doesn’t Stay in the Troposphere. By Rebecca Owen, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In the final decades of the 20th century, stratospheric ozone depletion—often called, not quite accurately, the ozone hole—was a widespread concern. Halocarbons, including chlorofluorocarbons used as coolants in refrigerators and aerosol […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { Ozone Contents } 2026-06-08. Rocket Launches and Reentries Harm Earth’s Ozone Layer. By Sarah Stanley, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Solid-state fuels—recently used to help launch astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades—appear to be the fuel type with the most detrimental effects on the ozone. …The space industry […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 { Ozone Contents } El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion 2020-05-19. Tracking Tropospheric Ozone Since 1979. By David Shultz, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: … The planet’s protective ozone layer, which exists mainly in the stratosphere at altitudes between 15 and 35 kilometers, absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, shielding the surface from hazardous […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { Ozone Contents } Analyzing the Antarctic Ozone Hole. Earth Exploration Toolbook activity. Use satellite images and ImageJ software to show how much ozone is in the atmosphere over the Southern Hemisphere, identify the ozone “hole” that develops over this region every spring, and with spreadsheet, graph its size from year […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Ozone Contents } 2019-01-22. Podcast: Uncovering the Ozone Hole. By Nanci Bompey, Eos/AGU.  2012-Dec.  The Ozone Problem is Back – And Worse Than Ever | Sharon Begley, Smithsonian Magazine.  Excerpt:  Jim Anderson of Harvard University … Since 2001, …had been studying powerful thunderstorms by packing instruments into repurposed spy planes and B-57 […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 { Ozone Contents } 2012 March 12.  F. Sherwood Rowland, Cited Aerosols’s Danger, Is Dead at 84 | By Felicity Barringer, The NY Times. Excerpt: F. Sherwood Rowland, whose discovery in 1974 of the danger that aerosols posed to the ozone layer was initially met with disdain but who was ultimately vindicated […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { Ozone Contents } 2023-03-15. The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/magazine/cfcs-inventor.html] By Steven Johnson, The New York Times. Excerpt: While The Times praised him as “one of the nation’s outstanding chemists” in its obituary, today [Thomas Midgley Jr.] is best known for the terrible consequences of […]