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Contents contributed and discussions participated by S Berrend

S Berrend

How one man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard - Vox - 1 views

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    Nice article with good photos showing what one person has done.
S Berrend

The Earth Has Lungs. Watch Them Breathe. - Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich - 14 views

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    Great short video showing how CO2 patterns change with the seasons. PS it mentions that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.
S Berrend

Palau vs. the Poachers - The New York Times - 3 views

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    The island nation has mounted an aggressive response to illegal fishing in their waters. How they protect themselves may help the rest of the world save all of the oceans.
S Berrend

California's Old Tires Cross the Ocean and Come Back as Smog | TakePart - 6 views

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    California's Old Tires Cross the Ocean and Come Back as Smog
S Berrend

Sustainability | An Open Access Journal from MDPI - 6 views

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    An open-access scholarly journal dealing with many APES topics. Could be used in teaching students how to read iresearch at this level
S Berrend

The carbon map - 13 views

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    Cool interactive world map showing CO2 emissions by country
S Berrend

Fukushima mutant daisies: Deformed flowers spotted at Japan's disaster site - 10 views

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    Nice short passage showing plants.
S Berrend

Interactive: Here's why men on earth outnumber women by 60 million - Quartz - 8 views

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    Men now outnumber women (2013) on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling with an imbalanced population. Here's a look at five decades of data:
S Berrend

Population pyramids: Powerful predictors of the future - Kim Preshoff | TED-Ed - 7 views

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    Very nice 5 minute explanation of population pyramids.
S Berrend

2015 World Population Interactive Map - 9 views

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    Good basic lesson plans for students delving into world population data.
S Berrend

Unit Conversions Tutorial - Home - 4 views

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    Practice in dimensional analysis!
S Berrend

TerraCycle | Outsmart Waste - 2 views

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    Site for recycling tons of things some for money
S Berrend

California residents using technology to #DroughtShame their neighbors - The Technology... - 5 views

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    Drought shaming hashtag article
S Berrend

About EIS - Extreme Ice Survey - 2 views

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    Seeing is believing. Real-world visual evidence has a unique ability to convey the reality and immediacy of global warming to a worldwide audience. The Extreme Ice Survey provides scientists with basic and vitally important information on the mechanics of glacial melting and educates the public with firsthand evidence of how rapidly the Earth's climate is changing. EIS is a voice for landscapes that would have no voice unless we gave them on
S Berrend

Ocean Acidification on Vimeo - 1 views

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    Very nice short explantion of coral death and bleaching.
S Berrend

AP Environmental Science: Timeline Review - 11 views

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    Nice clean (student produced) set of 35 slides showing major events in environmental science.
John Sierra

AP Test Scores - 9 views

environmental science test
started by John Sierra on 16 Jul 15 no follow-up yet
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    John,
    Have you looked at your score report? Can you use it to see if there is/are topic(s) that are commonly low for your class?
S Berrend

Here Are 10 Striking Images of Future Sea Levels | Climate Central - 7 views

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    Below are 10 before-and-after images of iconic locations in major U.S. coastal cities if sea levels rose 25 feet. The after images were created by visual artist Nickolay Lamm using sea level rise mapping data developed by Climate Central. Boston's Back Bay becomes the Front Bay, Los Angeles's Venice Beach and Miami's Ocean Drive disappear completely and the Washingt
S Berrend

Wolves Change Rivers - YouTube - 2 views

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    Short video showing the unexpected connection of reintroducing wolves and riparian restoration.
S Berrend

NOAA Climate Stewards Education Project - 1 views

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    CSEP provides formal and informal educators working with elementary through university age students with sustained professional development, collaborative tools, and support to build a climate-literate public that is actively engaged in climate stewardship. CSEP also provides support for educators to execute climate stewardship (mitigation or adaptation) projects with their audiences to increase understanding of climate science and practical actions to reduce the impact of climate change. The project is part of NOAA's portfolio of activities to strengthen ocean, climate, and atmospheric science education. 
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