Crossing Boundaries

I think all of the CB people that attended the workshop will agree... you have got to check out CHANGE Viewer ASAP... The Climate Change and Human Health project is designed to provide educators with the resources to engage high school students in critical thinking about climate change and the potential impact on human health across the planet. Activities developed for this project all use an interactive geospatial globe called CHANGE Viewer, to view and access climate and human related datasets.

"Berkeley Earth has just released analysis of land-surface temperature records going back 250 years, about 100 years further than previous studies. The analysis shows that global warming is real, and the best explanation of the temperature trend is a combination of volcanoes and CO2."

ohhh. I've used this website often but didn't realize they offered spatial data. Can't wait to try

Nice animation that really shows the trends

A new video series from the National Research Council summarizes what scientists have learned about global warming and climate change.

Three cheers go out to Jim Murphy for sharing this great website! It's an amazing resource for Global Climate Change! The NOAA Coastal Services Center would like to acknowledge those organizations that provided direct content used in this tool or feedback, ideas, and reviews over the course of the tool's development. Specifically the Center would like to acknowledge the following groups. The U.S.

Remember The Story of Stuff video? This is a sequel, discussing how to take environmental action that goes beyond making responsible shopping choices and taking out the recycling.

"Centered around an interactive Web site that features more than 75 videos, scores of audio recordings of birds and animals, and photos and text that are an elegy for lost and threatened species, Lin's "What is Missing?" project has the same arresting, unsettling qualities that are a hallmark of her Vietnam memorial."

use of badges for peer review in coursework

"Ecologists have long argued that everything in the nature is connected, but teasing out these intricate connections is not so easy. In fact, it took research on a remote, unoccupied island for scientists to discover that manta ray abundance was linked to seabirds and thereby native trees."

"Preventing the extinction of the world's most imperiled species would also bring untold benefits to people according to new research"

"World leaders need to do much more to protect the Earth's millions of species for the services they provide, according to a new scientific consensus statement in Nature based on over 1,000 research papers. "

Nearly 100 endangered species should be on track to meet federal scientists' recovery goals, according to a new analysis by a national nonprofit organization that seeks to protect the planet's biological diversity. The Center for Biological Diversity's review examined population trends of 110 endangered plant and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in every state across the USA, including Florida's American crocodile, the gray wolf of the Rockies, and the black-footed ferret, which once existed from southern Canada to Texas. The group found that 90 percent of the species listed are on a positive trajectory toward recovery - and some are even doing better. Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1cmi1)

By bringing together all types of information about species distributions, providing model-based integration, and providing a system for users to build upon our knowledge, the Map of Life project hopes to support our community in understanding and saving the world's biodiversity.

This LiveBinder is dedicated to helping teachers find the right web tool for the task at hand.

BILLINGS - The U.S. Forest Service is attempting to grow whitebark pine that are resistant to blister rust as part of an effort to prevent the high-elevation tree from dying out in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

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"The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science. A video course for high school teachers and college level instruction; 13 half-hour video programs, online text, professional development guide, and Web site; graduate credit available"