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  "In what follows I provide a brief description and rigorous classification of the seventeen planar crystallographic groups (also known as wallpaper patterns)."
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• Geologic Time - Dating Techniques | Tulane University
  "Prior to the late 17th century, geologic time was thought to be the same as historical time."
• How Do Geologists Know How Old a Rock Is? | Utah Geological Survey
• How Old is That Rock? | NASA-sponsored classroom of the future
• An Essay on Radiometric Dating by Jonathan Woolf
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• X-ray study reveals new details of how burrowing sea creatures shape geology | October 14, 2015
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• Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening | April 13, 2018 - Smithsonian Magazine
  Two new studies show the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has decreased 15 to 20 percent over the last 150 years.
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• Atlantic Ocean Current Slows Down To 1,000-Year Low, Studies Show | April 13, 2018 - NPR
  "The only thing we really can do is obviously try and prevent global warming because that's the root cause of why we think it's weakening now with increasing temperatures."

• The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt | The Environmental Literacy Council
• The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt | VIDEO - NASA
• What is the global ocean conveyor belt? | Ocean Service Education - NOAA
  • The Global Conveyor Belt
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• Huge fossil discovery made in China's Hubei province | March 24, 2019 - BBC
• Fossil Treasure Trove of Ancient Animals Unearthed in China | March 21, 2019 - Smithsonian Magazine
  The fossils from the Cambrian Period include dozens of new species and provide a window into life more than 500 million years ago.
• 'Mindblowing' haul of fossils over 500m years old unearthed in China | March 21, 2019 - The Guardian

• The Evolution of Life on Earth | Stephen J. Gould
  "The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and fortuitous events."
• The Cambrian Explosion | Wikipedia
• Origins - Cambrian Evolutionary Fauna | The Scarlet Pensive
• The Cambrian Explosion | Understanding Evolution - Berkeley
• The Cambrian Period | UCMP
• The Cambrian Explosion | The Burgess Shale
• What sparked the Cambrian explosion? | February 16, 2016 by Douglas Fox - Nature
  An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals. The trigger behind that revolution is finally coming into focus.
• Lightning-Fast Evolution Clocked During Cambrian Explosion | September 12, 2013 by Tia Goss - LiveScience
• Cambrian Explosion | PDF File | by Joseph L. Kirschvink & Tomothy V. Raub - California Institute of Technology
• The Scientific Controversy Over the Cambrian Explosion | Center for Science and Culture/Discovery Institute, Seattle
• Phys.org -- Science News, Technology, Physics, Nanotechnology
  • NEWS tagged with Cambrian Explosion
    • Explosive growth of life on Earth fueled by early greening of planet

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• Oldest Fossil Footprints on Land | Nature
  "The oldest fossils of footprints ever found on land hint that animals may have beaten plants out of the primordial seas."
• An Introduction to Evolution - The History of Life on Earth | Thoughtco
• The Quest for Chordate Origins | Excerpt of a Lecture by Jennifer Duffy, University of Alberta
• The Strangest Cambrian Creatures Ever Discovered
• Richard Cowen -- UCD Faculty
  • History of Life -- 5th edition
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      • Images of Animals: the Ediacaran and the Cambrian

• Age of Animals | Universe Review
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• The Cambrian Explosion | Fossil Museum
  
• Dawn of Animal Life | Miller Museum of Geology -- Queen's University, Canada
  • Eukaryotic Cells
    "Differences between plants and animals seem at first to mark a basic division of life on Earth. Scientists however recognize an even more fundamental division: life based on prokaryotic cells versus life based on eukaryotic cells."
  
• Biology Reference
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  • Evidence and the Cambrian Explosion by Jeffrey S. Levinton

• The Cambrian "explosion": Slow-fuse or megatonnage | PDF File | by Simon Conway Morris - PNAS
• Professor Simon Conway Morris - University of Cambridge
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• The Burgess Shale and Its Significance | The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
• Fossils from the Burgess Shale of the Stephen Formation | The Virtual Fossil Museum
• The Burgess Shale | UCMP - Berkeley
• The Burgess Shale: Introduction
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• The Burgess Shale | Smithsonian Magazine
• How the Burgess Shale Changed Our View of Evolution | Smithsonian Magazine
• Additional Resources on the Burgess Shale | PDF File | The Seattle Times

• INDEX of Topics
  • The Five Kingdoms of Life
    

• Five Kingdoms of Life

I. Bacteria (19): Most of the Known Prokaryotes

Kingdom: Eubacteria (True Bacteria)

Division (Phylum) Proteobacteria: N-Fixing Bacteria
Division (Phylum) Cyanobacteria: Blue-Green Bacteria
Division (Phylum) Eubacteria: True Gram Posive Bacteria
Division (Phylum) Spirochetes: Spiral Bacteria
Division (Phylum) Chlamydiae: Intracellular Parasites

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II. Archaea (16): Prokaryotes of Extreme Environments

Kingdom Crenarchaeota: Thermophiles
Kingdom Euryarchaeota: Methanogens & Halophiles
Kingdom Korarchaeota: Some Hot Springs Microbes

III. Eukarya (35): Eukaryotic Cells

Kingdom Protista (Protoctista)
Kingdom Fungi
Kingdom Plantae
Kingdom Animalia

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• Watch Free Online -- "The Great Culling: Our Water" | 93 minutes - Top Documentary Films
  The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. Covertly, insidiously, mercilessly, a global depopulation agenda has been launched. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.

• Watch Free Online -- "Flow: For Love of Water" | 93 minutes - Top Documentary Films
  Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
  • "Flow" the Film Home Page

• Global Water Supply Drying Up As Population Grows | ThoughtCo

• "Water on the Table" | Wikipedia
  Water on the Table is a Canadian documentary film directed, produced and written by filmmaker Liz Marshall. The film explores Canada's relationship to its freshwater resources and features Canadian activist Maude Barlow in her pursuit to protect water from privatization.

• Preview: Last Call at the Oasis | YouTube
  • Ecocentric | Our Hero: Jessica Yu, Director of "Last Call at the Oasis" | GRACE Communications Foundation

  • When There Really Is Not a Drop to Drink | Review by A.O. Scott | The New York Times Movies
    "Last Call at the Oasis" - A Documentary About Water Supplies
    
  • For Americans' Water, It's 'Last Call at the Oasis' | Review by Mark Jenkins | NPR

• "Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide" | Trailer - YouTube
• "Water Wars" | Review by Mark Leeper - IMDB

• Top Documentary Films
  • "A World Without Water" | 76 minutes
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  • "Water: The Great Mystery" | Trailer Only

• The Water Nexus Blog
  • 10 Must-see water documentaries that provide insight into the future water crisis

• "Future Earth 2025: A Future of Water Shortages" | YouTube
  Future Earth 2025 takes us on an extraordinary CGI journey into the future offering a vision of what the world might be like if we continue to deplete one of our primary resources -- water.
• "Future Earth 2025" | IMDB

• Water Related Documentaries | The Water Project

• UN Environment 2018 Annual Report

• Nature & Environment

• NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act (1969)
  • Summary of the National Environmental Policy Act (1969)

• Helping Monarch Butterflies
  In the last two decades, its numbers have dropped 90%. We’re working with our partners to restore 1.5 million acres of monarch habitat in the next 10 years and set the butterfly toward recovery.

• Regions
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• Vehicle Recycling: An Eco-Friendly Alternative
• Green Guide For Kids At Home | quietHut
  This guide is packed with links to more than 30 resources about environmental protection and recycling.
• A Green Home Guide -- How To Go Green At Home
• Reducing Your Home's Carbon Footprint: 4 Cash-Conserving Ways to Do It | Safe Sound Family
• Green Living | Article - Home Advisor
• 10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green | Worldwatch Institute
• Green Home Resource Guide | ReviewLab
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→ Download E-Book : Fundamentals of Physical Geography (2nd edition)
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• Sources of Nonlinearity and Complexity in Geomorphic Systems | Abstract - Download PDF Available | Progress in Physical Geography - Sage Journals

• The Ocean Biome
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• World Biomes - Aquatic

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• UCMP Glossary
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    • The Grassland Biome

• World Biomes
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• Serengeti Vegetation
  • Savanna Plant Ecology | PDF File
    "world of savanna plant ecology in detail"

• Grasslands of the World | Edited by J.M. Suttie, S.G. Reynolds and C. Batello
  • Grasslands of the World: Chapter One: Introduction | FAO
    "Grasslands are a very large carbon sink at world level. Minahi et al. (1993) state that they are almost as important as forests in the recycling of greenhouse gasses and that soil organic matter under grassland is of the same magnitude as in tree biomass; the carbon storage capacity under grassland can be increased by avoiding tillage."

• Coral Reef Atlas | Archived - 2001

• Search on "Coral Reefs"
  • Coral Reefs: There's Still Hope, But Only Just | March/April 2006 Issue

• Biomes of the World - Biome Map | Interactive Map
  "Click on a biome on the above graph for more information, informative videos, and links to scientist profiles, travel information, lesson plans and species profiles for each region."
  • Coral Reef Biome

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• Coral Reef Biome: Structure, Habitats, Communities

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• NEWS:
  • Paleontologists Find One-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Fungi in Canada | May 23, 2019 - Sci-News
  • Billion-year-old fossils set back evolution of earliest fungi | May 22, 2019 - Nature
  • Centuries-Old Plant Collection Now Online -- A Treasure Trove For Researchers | September 2, 2018 - NPR
  • Origins of land plants pushed back in time | Feb. 20, 2018 - BBC

• Plant Evolution and Paleobotany - Plant Classification
  • What is Paleobotany?
• Evolution of Plants | Biology Reference
• The Four Major Groups of Plants | Cazadero Nature Program
• Plant Species Numbers | Botanic Gardens Conservation International
• Estimated Number of Animal and Plant Species on Earth | FactMonster
• How Many Different Species of Plant Are There? | Evolving Thoughts
• How Many Species of Plants are there? | Wisegeek
  Vascular plants are the keystone that holds up the entire terrestrial ecosystem, in the same way that cyanobacteria hold up the ecosystem in the oceans.
• The Diversity of Life - Evolution of Plants - Part I | Furman University
  • Part II
  • Part III
• Professor Farabee's Online Biology Book: Table of Contents | Estrella Mountain Community College
  • Biological Diversity: Nonvascular Plants and Nonseed Vascular Plants
    • Evolution of Plants
    • Seed Plants
• Plants | CK-12.org
  • Early Evolution of Plants
• The evolution of plants part 1: The first conquerors of land | Earth Archives
  • The evolution of plants part 5: The grassland empire | Earth Archives
• The evolution of plants part 5: The grassland empire | Earth Archives
• Evolutionary History of the Grasses | American Society of Plant Physiologists
• Dung Fossils Suggest Dinosaurs Ate Grass | National Geographic News
• Plant Evolution and Paleobotany
  • The Rise of Trees
• First Land Plants and Fungi Changed Earth's Climate Paving the Way for Explosive Evolution of Land Animals
  New Gene Study Suggests | May 10, 2001 - Science Daily
  The researchers found that land plants had evolved on Earth by about 700 million years ago and land fungi by about 1,300 million years ago -- much earlier than previous estimates of around 480 million years ago, which were based on the earliest fossils of those organisms.
• Campbell Biology: Online Textbook Help
  • The Origin of Fungi and Its Move to Land
  • The Evolution of Plants and Fungi: Characteristics & Evolutionary History
• Evolution of fungi | Wikipedia
• Scientists found a billion-year-old fungus, and it could change our understanding of how life migrated to land | May 23, 2019 - Business Insider
• Ancient fungi may have laid the groundwork for complex life | May 28, 2019 - Popular Science
• Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms | Smithsonian Magazine
  24 feet tall and three feet wide, these giant spires dotted the ancient landscape
• Fungi was vital to early plant life | Cosmos
• Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungi | May 22, 2019 - The Conversation
• How the First Plant Came to Be | Scientific American
  A genetic analysis reveals the ancient, complex--and symbiotic--roots of photosynthesis in plants.
• The Hidden Forest
  • Liverworts
    Liverworts are considered to be the first plant to make the transition from the sea to land, some 400 million years ago, and share a common ancestry with green algae (Chlorophyta).
• The First Plants: colonizing wetlands | Earth History
• The War Between Plants and Animals | by Carl Zimmer - Discover Magazine
• Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions - A New Model for Climate Change | by Donald L. Blanchard
  In this article is proposed a new hypothesis which presents arguments for a long-term cyclicity (ca. 190 Million years) in paleoclimates, and attempts to correlate this cyclicity with major extinction events.
• A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Paleozoic | FULL TEXT - | PDF File (1.0M) available
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences
• The Evolutionary Origin of Plants | PDF File - McGraw Hill Education
  Plants evolved from freshwater green algae and eventually developed cuticles, stomata, conducting systems, and reproductive strategies that adapt them well for life on land.
  • Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts | PDF File
    The three major phyla of nonvascular plants are all relatively unspecialized, but well suited for diverse terrestrial environments.
  • Seedless Vascular Plants | PDF File
  • Gymnosperms | PDF File
  • Angiosperms | PDF file
• How Did Plants Evolve | VIDEO - YouTube
• The Soltis Lab | Florida Museum of Natural History
  Scientists and students in the Soltis Lab are currently working with a variety of technologies to investigate mechanisms of speciation, evolutionary relationships and character evolution in flowering and land plants at all taxonomic levels.
• How seeds recognize the seasons | Dec. 16, 2014 - by David Garner | Phys.org
  • Maternal temperature history activates Flowering Locus T in fruits to control progeny dormancy according to time of year
    PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• The Evolution of Plants (pictures) | Antranik.org
  Did you know that plants used to live only in water millions of years ago? In fact, they didn't even look like plants… plants ancestors were simply algae! Eventually, they evolved to find their way onto land and make use of a completely new environment.
• Dinosaurs and Plants | Enchanted Learning
• Wikipedia
  • Timeline of Plant Evolution
    By the end of the Devonian, the first seed-forming plants had appeared. This rapid appearance of so many plant groups and growth forms has been called the "Devonian Explosion".
  • Evolutionary History of Plants
  • Gymnosperm
• IPlants.org
  iPlants aims to produce an index of all the world's plant species together with, where possible, an image and a preliminary conservation assessment.
• 8.7 million species exist on Earth, study says | August 23, 2011 - The Washington Post
• Species count put at 8.7 million | August 23, 2011 - BBC
• Number of Species Identified on Earth | Current Results

• Angiosperm | Encyclopedia Britannica
• Angiosperm | Encyclopedia.com
• Angiosperms | Biology Reference
• Angiosperm | New World Encyclopedia
• Angiosperms | Tree of Life Web Project
• What is a Flowering Plant? | Encyclopedia of Life
  Approximately 260,000 species of flowering plant have been named so far, constituting nearly 90% of all known species of plants.
• Part III: Angiosperms | The Diversity of Life - Furman University

• How many species of flowering plants are there? | Published July 7, 2010 - Proceedings B - The Royal Society
• Estimate of flowering plant species to be cut by 600,000 | Phys.Org
• Scientists prune list of world's plants | September 19, 2010 - The Guardian

• When Did Flowering Plants Evolve? | (pictures) - Wisegeek
• Evolution of the First Flowers
  Florida Museum of Natural History Study Provides New Insight.
• How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth? | Science Daily
  Scientists have discovered the evolutionary step which allowed flowering plants to become the most abundant and ecologically successful group of plants on Earth.
• The Big Bloom--How Flowering Plants Changed the World | National Geographic
• Where Did All the Flowers Come From? | The New York Times
• The Abominable Mystery: How flowers conquered the world | BBC
  The roughly 350,000 known species of flowering plants make up about 90% of all living plant species.
• The Story of Flowering Plants | PDF File (28 pages) | University of Michigan
  And now; SEEDS and PLANT PARTS for 2nd & 3rd graders !
• How Plants Work
  • How, When, and Where Did Flowers Originate?

• Leaf veins as the driving factor in angiosperm evolution (Brodribb and Feild 2009, Ecology Letters)
• Flowers Modern and Ancient | NOVA - PBS
  Here, explore what makes Archaefructus a flowering plant and how it compares to blooming beauties of today.
  • First Flower | NOVA presents the search for the first flowering plant.
  • A Plant with Smarts | by Susan Orlean
• Montsechia, an ancient aquatic angiosperm | FULL TEXT | PNAS
• Ancient Aquatic Flora Was among the First Flowering Plants | Scientific American
  Pyrenees fossils suggest the Montsechia lived up to 130 million years ago and is the earliest known example of a fully submerged aquatic flowering plant.
• New Genetic Study Helps to Solve Darwin's Mystery about the Ancient Evolution of Flowering Plants | Penn State Science
• Genetics Helps Solve How Flowering Plants Evolved | McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University
  New research indicates that two major genetic upheavals produced thousands of new genes that may have helped drive the evolutionary explosion that led to the rich diversity of present-day flowering plants.
• The First Flower | VIDEO - 53 minutes - YouTube
• How Did Flowering Plants Evolve to Dominate Earth? | Science Daily
• How Angiosperms Took Over the World | by Elizabeth Pennisi - Science Magazine
• Angiosperms | UNLV
  Flowering plants (Magnoliophyta) are the most successful of all plant groups in terms of their diversity. The group includes more than 250,000 species, and at least 12,000 genera.
• Flowering Plant - Angiosperm | Wikipedia
  • Flower
  • ABC model of flower development
    ABC model of flower development is a scientific model of the process by which flowering plants produce a pattern of gene expression in meristems that leads to the appearance of an organ oriented towards sexual reproduction, a flower.
• The ABC model of flower development: then and now | PDF File - CalTech
  Authors: John L. Bowman, David R. Smyth and Elliot M. Meyerowitz
• Review: Molecular evolution of flower development | PDF File - NYU
  Authors: Amy L. Lawton-Rauh, Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla and Michael D. Purugganan
  The study of the evolution of genes that control floral morphogenesis permits us to draw inferences on the diversification of developmental systems, the origin of floral organs and the selective forces that drive evolutionary change among these plant reproductive structures.
• How Flower Petals Get Their Shape | April 30, 2013 - Live Science
  The shape of a flower's petals and leaves are dictated by a biological map hidden inside the flower's growing bud, a new study finds.
• Angiosperm Floral Morphology | Univeristy of Wisconsin
• The Description of Flowers
• The Carnivorous Plant FAQ - The International Carnivorous Plant Society
  • How Did Carnivorous Plants Evolve?

• A Chain of Species Destruction at Yellowstone | May 13, 2019 - The New York Times

• The Bountiful Benefits Of Bringing Back The Beavers | June 24, 2018 - NPR - Heard on Weekend Edition

• Community and Ecosystem Dynamics

• Ecosystem

• Definition of an Ecosystem

• Resources
  • Guide to the Millennium Assessment Reports
    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment assessed the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being. From 2001 to 2005, the MA involved the work of more than 1,360 experts worldwide.

• Red List of Ecosystems

• When eradicating invasive species threatens endangered species recovery | May 29, 2014 | News360 - PhysOrg
• Optimal approaches for balancing invasive species eradication and endangered species management | May 30, 2014 | Science Mag - AAAS

• Enormous Iceberg About to Break Off From Antarctica | June 1, 2017 - USNews
• Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica | July 12, 2017 - NASA
• Giant iceberg breaks off Antarctica | July 12, 2017 - Reuters
  • Explanatory Graphic
• Iceberg twice size of Luxembourg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf | July 12, 2017 | The Guardian
  Satellite data confirms calving of trillion-tonne, 5,800 sq km iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf, dramatically altering the landscape.
  • Graphic of iceberg crack along shelf

• NSIDC: National Snow & Ice Data Center
  
  • All About Glaciers: Introduction
• Glaciers | National Park Service
• Glacier | Encyclopedia Britannica
• Glaciology | Wikipedia

• Theories of the Ice Age
• Richard A. Muller | Professor, Berkeley Department of Physics
  • A brief introduction to ice age theories
    
• New Evidence Supports Ice Age Comet Theory
• Iceage Theory | A Chaos theory of ice ages
• Ice Ages: Illinois State Museum

• Forest News:
  • 280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in... Antarctica | November 15, 2017 - LiveScience
    "Antarctica preserves an ecologic history of polar biomes that ranges for about 400 million years, which is basically the entirety of plant evolution," said Erik Gulbranson, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    

  • 'Sapphire rush' threatens rainforests of Madagascar | April 2, 2017 - The Guardian
  • Millions of trees cut down to make way for wind farms | Scottish Conservatives
    
  • Millions of trees cut down to make way for wind farms | The Daily Caller
    
  • England may be in deforestation state due to lack of tree planting | The Guardian
    
  • A Nigerian Superhighway Project Threatens a Critical Rainforest and Its People | Earth Island Journal
    
  • Six-Lane Highway Threatens Nigeria's Last Rainforests | Smithsonian Magazine
    
  • Stop Superhighway From Destroying Rainforest Wildlife | Animal Petitions
    
  • Barnaby Joyce plan to log old growth forest will 'drive animals to extinction,' expert says | March 28, 2017 | The Guardian
    
  • Why reignite Tasmania's forest wars - to produce logs no one will buy? | March 24, 2017 | The Guardian
    
  • Tasmanian government rips up 'job-destroying' forestry peace deal | September 2, 2016 | The Guardian
    400,000 hectares of protected native forest to be opened to logging in move Liberals say will enhance job creation
  • Plans to log Tasmania's world heritage forests dropped after UN criticism | March 20, 2016 | The Guardian
    
  • Brown Mountain -- irreplaceable old-growth forest being logged | The Wilderness Society
    
  • Leuser Watch | Exposing the Destruction of Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem | Rainforest Action Network
    

• Types of Forests

• The Rise of Trees

• Types of Forest Ecosystems | Article | April 24, 2017 by Shelby Redfield
• Why is Deforestation a Global Environmental Problem? | Article | April 25, 2017 by Sarah Cairoli

• Natural Inquirer >> A middle school science education journal

• Deforestation

• Forests
  Forests are critical to the survival of every living thing on Earth. Forests clean the air, regulate weather, absorb greenhouse gas emissions, and stabilize the climate--both global and local. Not to mention, forests provide habitat for 80 percent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and livelihoods for 1.6 billion people.

• Forests and Climate Change
  Deforestation accounts for nearly 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions -- more than the world's entire transport sector. At the same time, the removal capacity of forests is decreased as forests are lost.

• Leuser Watch | Exposing the Destruction of Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem
  The Leuser Ecosystem is a spectacular expanse of rare, intact rainforest that is the only place left on Earth where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinos live together in the wild.

• Anatomy of a Tree

• Tree Bark

• Moss | Wikipedia
• What is a Moss? | Australian National Herbarium
• Moss | HowStuffWorks
• Mosses and Liverworts | Biology4Kids

• What is Lichen? | Wikipedia
• What is a Lichen? | Australian National Herbarium
• What is a Lichen? | The British Lichen Society
• Lichens | Ohio State University
• Lichens of North America - Information
  This website grew out of the activities of Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff, who did the photographic fieldwork for the book Lichens of North America, by Irwin M.Brodo and the Sharnoffs, published in November, 2001 by Yale University Press.

• Biomes of the World - Biome Map | Interactive Map
  "Click on a biome on the above graph for more information, informative videos, and links to scientist profiles, travel information, lesson plans and species profiles for each region."
  
  • Rainforests

• Rainforests: facts, figures, news, and pictures
• Rainforest Information for Kids
  • Deforestation Figures for Selected Countries | Mongabay
• Conservation news and environmental science news
  Mongabay, founded in 1999, seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, aims to be your best source of tropical rainforest conservation and environmental science news.

• International Rivers
  Since 1985, International Rivers has been at the heart of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them. We work with an international network of dam-affected people, grassroots organizations, environmentalists, human rights advocates and others who are committed to stopping destructive river projects and promoting better options.
• Rivers | National Geographic
• Lists of rivers | Wikipedia
  This is a comprehensive list of lists of rivers, organized primarily by continent and country.
• Rivers, Major World | Water Encyclopedia
• Principle Rivers of the World | FactMonster.com
  The following table lists the principal rivers of the world including the name, source location, outflow, and approximate length.
• Major World Rivers| EnchantedLearning.com
  
• List of Major Rivers in the World | Altius Directory
• 10 Most Important Rivers in the World | Touropia
• The Colorado River Runs Dry | Smithsonian Magazine
• Announcing America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2017 | American Rivers
• Human Activities Contribute to Drying Up of Major River Headwaters | Worldwatch Institute
• Dried Up: Lakes, Rivers, and Other Bodies of Water Disappearing Fast | April 27, 2014 - The Weather Channel
• World's Major Rivers Drying Up | SciDevNet
  Some of the developing world's largest rivers are drying up because of climate change, threatening water supplies in some of the most populous places on Earth, say scientists.

• River delta | Wikipedia
• Delta | Encyclopedia Britannica
• The Major River Deltas of the World | PDF File - 7.45MB

• What Causes Algal Blooms? | Center for Earth and Environmental Science
  Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis
• What are Algal Blooms? | Department of Primary Industries - Australia
  • What Causes Algal Blooms?
• Nutrient Pollution - Harmful Algal Blooms | EPA
• Algal bloom | Wikipedia

• UN Water
  • Water Facts
• Groundwater: A Global Assessment of Scale and Significance | PDF File (29 pages)
• Scientists Map Vast Reserves Of Freshwater Under The Seabed | December 11, 2013 - NPR Blog
• Huge Fresh Groundwater Reserves Found beneath Ocean Floor | December 6, 2013 - Sci-News
• Kenya strikes huge water reserve in arid Turkana region | September 11, 2013 - Africa Review
• Vital underground water found in arid north Kenya | September 12, 2013 - CNN
• The Guarani Aquifer: a little known water resource in South America gets a voice | Blog - State of the Planet
• Water Profile of Brazil | Encyclopedia of Earth
• Groundwater resources in Brazil: a review of possible impacts caused by climate change
• Water-rich country at risk | Brazil - Latin America Press
• Top Ten Largest Renewable Fresh Water Supply Countries
  The map of Top Ten Countries with Largest Fresh Water available for supply in the world. Top countries include the Brazil, Russia, Canada, USA etc.
• Glossary | | FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • World Water Resources by Country
• Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict | October 24, 2008 - NewScientist
• World over-using underground water reserves for agriculture | August 8, 2012 - Reuters

• Aquifer | The Encyclopedia of Earth
• What is an Aquifer?
  Ground water moves very rapidly in fractured rock aquifers like the basalts of the eastern Snake River Plain. In such cases, the spread of contaminants can be difficult or impossible to prevent.
  • Eastern Snake Rvier Plain Aquifer - Idaho | By Doug Gellar - Emporia State University
• Water Science School | USGS
  • Aquifers and Groundwater
  • What is a Watershed?
• Ground Water Fundamentals | NGWA: National Groundwater Association
• The Basics: What is Groundwater? | The Groundwater Foundation
• Water Sources | Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Groundwater
• Earth Science Australia
  • Hydrologic Cycle

• Image: Anatomy of an Aquifer: The Lower Portneuf River Valley

• Wetland Types and Classifications
• The Carnivorous Plant FAQ: Pond, bog, swamp, marsh, fen--what are the differences?
• Wetland Definitions & Classification - Wetland Environments - James S. Aber - Emporia State University
• Wetlands | Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Mangroves

• Cattails Info
  • Types of Cattails
• Typha | Wikipedia
• Common Cattail | Brandeis University

• Wetlands

• Science

• List of Sites
  WHSRN brings attention to sites that are vital for the conservation of the hemisphere's longest-distance migrants.

• Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
  • Clean Water Laws, Regulations, Executive Orders | Wetlands
    Key federal statutes governing wetlands in the United States

• Wetland
• Wetlands of the United States
• Wetlands of the United States by State

• What We Do To Protect Wetlands & Watersheds
• Congress and Water Projects in America: The Latest on the Water Resources Development Act | April, 2013 - Blog

• WRDA: Water Resources Development Act | Sizing up the Corp of Engineers | PDF File - FWS

• H.R.3080: Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 | Congress.gov
• Water Resources Development Act of 2014 | PDF download available | Govtracks

• World Food Summit
  • AQUASTAT: FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture
    Thus AQUASTAT started, with the aim to contribute to FAO's goals through the collection, analysis and dissemination of information related to water resources, water uses and agricultural water management, with an emphasis on countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
    • Water Resources
      

• The National Agricultural Library
  The National Agricultural Library (NAL), part of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is one of four National Libraries in the United States. NAL is a major international source for agriculture and related information. This Web site provides access to NAL's many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions.
• NAL Catalog provides citations to agricultural literature
  • NRCS: National Resources Conservation Service
    • Plants
      • Plants Database
        The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
  • Water Quality Information Center
    • Wetlands

• 7th World Water Forum - 12-17 April 2015
• 6th World Water Forum Home Page - 12-17 March 2012
• 5th World Water Forum Home Page - 16-22 March 2009
• 5th World Water Forum | World Water Conference - 16-22 March 2009 - PDF File

• Water Biomes

• Major Environmental Laws & Regulations
  • Overview of the Clean Air Act and Air Pollution
  • The Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act | PDF Download available
• Water Topics
  • History: Clean Water Act
  • Standards for Water Body Health
  • Agriculture

• Water Resources Management

• The Great Barrier Reef

• Research Topics at a Glance | Research & Resources
• NCAR: The National Center for Atmospheric Research
  
  • NCAR/Atmospheric Chemistry Division
    The overall scientific goal of ACD is to identify and quantify the natural and anthropogenic processes that regulate the chemical composition of the troposphere and middle atmosphere and to assess future changes caused by human activities.

• The History of the Atmosphere
• Present Day Composition

• Cyanobacteria | University of Arizona
• Blue-Green Algae | Encyclopedia Britannica
• Introduction to Cyanobacteria | Architects of Earth's Atmosphere | UCMP Berkeley
• Tiny Microbes with a Big Impact: The Role of Cyanobacteria and Their Metabolites in Shaping Our Future | NCBI
• The Origin of Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere | Scientific American
• The Rise of Oxygen | Astrobiology Magazine
• Poisoned Planet | Phil Plait
• The Great Oxygenation Event | Wikipedia
  • Cyanobacteria | Wikipedia
• How Earth Got Its Oxygen | LiveScience
• Ecology Global Network
  • The Most Important Organism | Ecology Network

• Geologic History of Earth - Development of the Atmosphere and Oceans
• Atmosphere
• Evolution of the Atmosphere

• How the Ozone Layer Works | HowStuffWorks
  When UV light hits oxygen gas, it breaks it down to two oxygen atoms. Then, when an oxygen atom meets oxygen gas it forms ozone gas.
• How Does The Earth Protect Us From Space? | Universe Today
• Ultraviolet Radiation: How It Affects Life On Earth | Earth Observatory - NASA
• Ultraviolet Radiation | NSF Polar Programs UV Monitoring Network
• Ozone Layer | Encyclopedia Britannica
• Ozone | Ozone, UV, and Aerosal studies
  Welcome to the webpages of the ozone, aerosol and UV research group at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMIB).
  • Formation of ozone
• Ozone Facts | AirNow.gov
• Ozone and the Ozone Layer | English Online
  Articles in easy understandable english for learners
• Fundamentals of Physical Geography (2nd edition)
  • Chapter 7: Introduction to the Atmosphere
    • Chapter 7e: The Ozone Layer
• Wikipedia
  • Ozone
  • Ozone layer
  • Ozone-oxygen cycle

• Air - BC Air Quality
• Ozone Layer Protection | EPA
• Ozone Depletion | National Geographic
• Ozone Layer Depletion | Environment for Kids - Ducksters
• Ask the Scientist - What is Ozone, and why is it important?
• Ozone Facts: What is the Ozone Hole? | Ozone Hole Watch | Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA

• Soil Society of America
• Geology, Rocks and Minerals | Enchanted Learning
  • Soil Layers
• One amazing substance allowed life to thrive on land | Earth-BBC
  It is not much to look at, but without soil life might never have learned to thrive away from water.
• Soil for Schools | SoilNet.com
• K-12 Soil Science Teacher Resources | Soil Biology
  Soil is full of life. It is often said that a handful of soil has more living organisms than there are people on planet Earth. Soils are the stomach of the earth, consuming, digesting, and cycling nutrients and organisms.
  • Glossary
• Soils4kids.org
  • What is Soil?
    Soils are complex mixtures of minerals, water, air, organic matter, and countless organisms that are the decaying remains of once-living things.
  • Soil Mineralogy
    • Soil Basics | Just What is Soil?
• Basic Soil Components | Article
  There are five basic components of soil that, when present in the proper amounts, are the backbone of all terrestrial plant ecosystems: Mineral - Water - Organic Matter - Gases - Microorganisms
• Silicates
  • Mineralogy4Kids | Presented by the Mineralogical Society of America
    • Silicates - Mineral Groups
  • Silicate | New World Encyclopedia
  • Silicate | Wikipedia
  • Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
    • The Silicate Class
  • The Silicate Minerals | by Anne E. Egger, Ph.D. | Vision Learning
  • Silicates | University of Waterloo
  • Rocks and Minerals | rocksandminerals4u
    • What is a Mineral?
    • The Silicates - Building Blocks of The Earth's Crust
• Soil Minerals and Plant Nutrition | The Nature Education Knowledge Project
  How do chemical reactions involving soil minerals play a crucial role in controlling the availability of essential plant nutrients?
• Facts About Soil: What It is Made of and How It Forms | Bright Hub
• Introduction to Earth Science | Lecture Handouts Index
  • Introduction to Clay Minerals and Soils
• The Nature and Properties of Soils, 15th edition | by Raymond R. Weil | PDF download available | Research Gate
• Soil Composition and Formation | Indiana University
  • Virtual CD-ROM/ Floppy Disk Library
• Fundamentals of Soil | basic principles of tropical soils | University of Hawaii
  • Soil Composition
    The basic components of soil are minerals, organic matter, water and air.
• Building Soils for Better Crops, 3rd Edition | Online Version FREE | SARE: Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education
  • The Living Soil
    • Soil Microorganisms
  
• A Soil Primer Looking Closer, Digging Deeper | Hippocrates Health Institute
• Soil Health
  • Soils are Alive
• How Soil is Destroyed | FAO: Corporate Document Repository
• What types of animals live in the soil? | Soils Matter
• Article: The Living Earth | By Clint Waltz, H. "Skip" Skipper and Bert McCarty, Clemson University
• The secret life of soil | by Peg Herring - Oregon State University
• Soil organism | Encyclopedia Britannica
• Soil Science Courseware | Lectures - NCSU
  • Soil Oragnisms and Organic Matter
• Table of Contents | Soil quality considerations in the selection of sites for aquaculture | FAO - United Nations
• Plant Nutrition | Kids World
  • Plant Nutrients
    Sixteen chemical elements are known to be important to a plant's growth and survival. The sixteen chemical elements are divided into two main groups: non-mineral and mineral.
• Soil biology | Wikipedia
  • Soil
    Soil formation, or pedogenesis, is the combined effect of physical, chemical, biological and anthropogenic processes working on soil parent material.
    • Mediaviewer
  • Plant nutrition
• Plant Nutrients in the Soil | DPI - AU
• Understanding Soil Nutrients | PDF File (25 pages) - University of Vermont

• Brazilian troops to fight widespread Amazon fire, after global calls to action | August 24, 2019 - Climate Institutue
  • "Vast methane plumes escaping from the seafloor" discovered in Siberian Arctic Sea | July 28, 2014 - The Daily Kos
  • Vast methane 'plumes' seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats | December 13, 2011 - The Independent

• Arctic Report Card Documents 'Cascading Effects' Of Warming Ocean Temperatures | December 12, 2018 - NPR

• IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report
  An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

• Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I - Climate Science Special Report
  This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990.
• Fourth National Climate Assessment Volume I - Climate Science Special Report | U.S. Global Change Research Program - PDF File (477 pages)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
  • Chapter 2: Our Changing Climate
    This chapter is based on the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR), which is Volume I of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (available at science2017.globalchange.gov). The Key Messages and the majority of the content represent the highlights of CSSR, updated with recent references relevant to these topics. The interested reader is referred to the relevant chapter(s) in CSSR for more detail on each of the Key Messages that follow.
• Fourth National Climate Assessment | Global Change.gov
  "Below you will find information related to Volumes I and II of NCA4, including background information and frequently asked questions about the report development process."
• NCA4 Vol. I and II: FAQs

• The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come
  Published: November 28, 2018

• COP24
  COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• High Stakes As International Climate Conference Begins | December 3, 2018 - NPR
• Sir David Attenborough: Climate change 'our greatest threat' | Video - December 3, 2018 - BBC

• Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns | November 23, 2018 - CNN
• As Trump questions global warming, UN says: US gov't won't | November 22, 2018 - Yahoo! News
• Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 | October 7, 2018 - The New York Times
• Final call to save the world from 'climate catastrophe' | October 8, 2018 - BBC
• Trump's future-be-damned climate change policy | October 8, 2018 - Yahoo News

• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 - Summary
  The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018 was divided equally between William D. Nordhaus "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis" and Paul M. Romer "for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis."
  • Press Release || Press Release PDF File
    Integrating innovation and climate with economic growth
• 2018 Nobel in Economics Is Awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer | October 8, 2018 - The New York Times

• Climate Change | The New Yorker
• Trump: climate change scientists have political agenda | 10/15/18 - BBC
• Trump says climate change not a "hoax" but questions if it's "manmade" | October 15, 2018 - CBS News
• It's not okay how clueless Donald Trump is about climate change | February 1, 2018 - The Guardian
• To Predict Effects Of Global Warming, Scientists Looked Back 20,000 Years | August 30, 2018 - NPR
• Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change | August 31, 2018 - Science Magazine
• How vanishing Arctic ice may set stage for extreme Nor'easters | March 23, 2018 - NBC News
  Arctic sea ice is disappearing, and some climate scientists believe the drop is fueling Nor-easters, drought and other extreme weather.
• Approaching Day Zero | February 24, 2018 - The Week
• Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks | February 22, 2018 - PRI
  Brettschneider said. "There's this whole cascading set of impacts that affect the entire hemisphere, and in fact the entire globe, when you heat up the Arctic."
• Bering Sea Loses Half of its Sea Ice | Video - News Center Maine

• 16,000 scientists sign dire warning to humanity over health of planet | November 15, 2017 - CNN
• World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice | Published: November 13, 2017 - Journal Bioscience
• U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials | November 3, 2017 - The New York Times
• Trump administration releases report finding 'no convincing alternative explanation' for climate change | November 3, 2017 - The Washington Post
• Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming And Humans Are The Cause | November 2, 2017 - NPR
• Trump Picks Oklahoma Congressman to Head NASA | September 4, 2017 - NPR
  But when it comes to climate change, he has denied that human activities are responsible for increasing global temperatures.
• Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist | September 4, 2017 - NPR
• It's a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly | Opinion - August 28, 2017 | Michael Mann - The Guardian
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• Can Anyone, Even Walmart, Stem The Heat-Trapping Flood Of Nitrogen On Farms? | August 21, 2017 - NPR
• Human-Caused Warming Likely Led to Recent Streak of Record-Breaking Temperatures, new study finds | August 10, 2017 - AGU: American Geophysical Union
• White House reviewing new report that finds strong link between climate change, human activity | August 7, 2017 - The Washington Post
• Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report | August 7, 2017 - The New York Times
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• European heatwave deaths could skyrocket: climate study | August 5, 2017 - Phys.org
  "Also this week, researchers wrote in Environmental Research Letters, that rising carbon dioxide levels will dramatically cut the amount of protein in stable crops like rice and wheat in the decades to come. The new paper, said Paul Wilkinson of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, "is yet another reminder of the exposures to extreme weather and possible human impacts that might occur if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated."
• Schwarzenegger unveils initiative to tweak Trump on climate | 08/04/17 - Politico
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• Trump Will Withdraw U.S. From Paris Climate Agreement | June 1, 2017 - The New York Times
  
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• Scott Pruit hails era of environmental deregulation in speech at coal mine | April 13, 2017 | The Guardian
• New study shows worrisome signs for Greenland ice | April 14, 2017 | The Guardian
• Trump's Budget Slashes Climate Change Funding | March 16, 2017 - NPR
• Warmer Temps Speed Infectious Disease Spread | February 16, 2017 | by Brenda Goodman - WebMD
• Trump Administration Orders EPA to Remove Its Climate Change Web Page | January 25, 2017 | Scientific American
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• Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change | MutaMorphosis
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• What is regenerative farming? Experts say it can combat climate change | July 28, 2019 - CBSNews
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• In a Warming World, Evidence of a Human 'Fingerprint' on Drought | May 1, 2019 - The New York Times
• Scientists see fingerprint of warming climate on droughts going back to 1900 | May 1, 2019 - Phys.org
• NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years | May 1, 2019 - Video - NASA
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• How will climate change affect food production? | September 19, 2012 - The Guardian
• Gauging the impact of climate change on U.S. agriculture | July 7, 2016 - MIT News

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  • Fertilizers, a Boon to Agriculture, Pose Growing Threat to U.S. Waterways | July 27, 2017 - The New York Times
  • Nitrogen Pollution Likely to Increase Under Climate Change | Scientific American
    Human-made nitrogen now affects even isolated waterways, presaging a world where humanity drives the natural cycle of this vital nutrient.
  • How Much Fertilizer is Too Much for the Climate? | June 9, 2014 - MSU News
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• Sea Level Rise: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What Can Be Done? | 09/13/17 | by John Hawthorne
• Satellites show warming is accelerating sea level rise | February 12, 2018 - by Seth Borenstein - Seattle Times
  Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows.
• Climate Change Is Killing Coral On The Great Barrier Reef | April 18, 2018 - NPR
• Low oxygen levels, coral bleaching getting worse in oceans | January 5, 2018 - by Seth Borenstein - Seattle Times
  Global warming is making the world's oceans sicker, depleting them of oxygen and harming delicate coral reefs more often, two studies show.
• Low oxygen levels, coral bleaching getting worse in oceans | January 4, 2018 - aboutcivil.org
• Ocean Impacts of Climate Change | Video - National Geographic
  How is climate change affecting fragile coral reef ecosystems?
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• 5 ways climate change is affecting our oceans | EDF: Environmental Defense Fund
• Is Global Warming Really Slowing Down? | August 28, 2013 - Mother Jones
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• 5 ways that climate change affects the ocean | June 7, 2018 - Conservation International
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• The Ocean and Climate Change | PDF File | IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature
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• ICP-18 Examines Effects of Climate Change on Oceans | May 23, 2017 - IISD
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• Ocean Acidification Will Make Climate Change Worse | August 26, 2013 - TIME Magazine
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• Staggering Decline In Deep-Sea Marine Life Expected By 2100 Due To Climate Change | December 31, 2013 - International Science Times
• As Ocean Warms, the Impacts Multiply (Op-Ed) | October 5, 2013 - LiveScience
• What If the Ocean's Climate-Controlling 'Conveyor Belt' Came to a Halt? | April 12, 2018 - LiveScience
• Ocean currents affect how climate change impacts movements of species to cooler regions | May 24, 2017 - Phys.org
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