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Nomura may ship water to Australia via empty coal-carriers | The Japan Times Online
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Climate change: Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C, warns top scientist | Environment | The Guardian
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Tools for global problem solving — Global Collaborative
To be effective, such tools must be refined so that they can be shared and applied across borders and cultures. To be strategic, they should be versatile, that is, offer solutions to more than just one global problem. They should also be affordable, simple, and easy to use in many contexts.
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Stinging Tentacles Offer Hint of Oceans’ Decline - NYTimes.com
From Spain to New York, to Australia, Japan and Hawaii, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, and they are showing up in places where they have rarely been seen before, scientists say. The faceless marauders are stinging children blithely bathing on summer vacations, forcing beaches to close and clogging fishing nets.
But while jellyfish invasions are a nuisance to tourists and a hardship to fishermen, for scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining health of the world’s oceans.
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NOVA | scienceNOW | Fastest Glacier | PBS
A glacier moving way too fast reveals how unpredictable the effects of global warming can be.
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Can Global Warming Cause Global Cooling?
Overarching and Enduring Understandings Addressed in Climate Change Unit:
Natural Cycles of Planetary Change
Change is Detection through Pattern recognition
Interlocking relationship between the Earth's Systems
Overarching Questions Addressed in Greenland Melting unit:
What are the results of global warming?
Can the triggers of the Little Ice Age happen again?
What are the methods that scientists use to study Earth processes?
What are the harbingers and fingerprints of global processes?
What are the drivers of climate?
How are glaciers and ocean currents related?
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Global Warming Washing Away Entire Communities
A funny thing happened just before a ceremony was to be held last week to commemorate a $3 million sea wall around the village of Kivalina way up on Alaska's Arctic coastline. The village, home to Inupiat natives for 4,000 years, is about to be washed into the sea, and the 1,800-foot wall is supposed to stop that.
Alaska
There's growing evidence that villages in the far North like Kivalina, Alaska, are being eaten up by the ocean due, at least in part, to global warming.
(Northwest Arctic Borough,The Anchorage Daily News/AP Photo)
But along came a modest storm, with winds of up to 40 miles per hour, and 160 feet of the wall washed out. The ceremony was canceled.
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Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread' - British Antarctic Survey
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday 10 July 2007.
Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is “hanging by its last thread” to Charcot Island, one of the plate’s key anchors to the Antarctic peninsula, ESA said in a press release.
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Ice sheet breaks loose off Canada - CNN.com
A chunk of ice spreading across 18 square kilometers (7 square miles) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.
He hasn't seen any ice in weeks. Plans to set up an ice camp in February had to be abandoned when usually dependable ice didn't form for the second year in a row.
"Nobody on the ship is surprised anymore," Stern said. "We've been trying to get the word out for the longest time now that things are happening fast and they're going to continue to happen fast."
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DifferentiatingRWNECC08 » Link to the Overview Presentation
Overview Presentation on Tools the Support the Writing Process
Please find below the overview presentation discussing a general overview of the writing process, characteristics of effective writing supports and examples of tools containing one or more of these characteristics.
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WOW: Bringing Science Alive! (wiki) | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
What happens when you:
Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
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Science Alive! » home
Welcome to our Science Alive project!
We are students in two Middle School Grade 8 classes that have been working on a Science topic of our own choosing.
First, we chose a topic and then we had to create our own wiki page that demonstrated our understanding of our topic. We had to show Higher-Order Thinking Skills as seen in Blooms Taxonomy.
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NEA: Guide to Online Courses for High School Students - Online Learning - Online Education
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