Week Four

Climate Change

• Burning America (vid)
• Biggest Change in CO2 in 60 Million Years
• Has Global Warming Reached a Tipping Point? 
• Global Warming's Terrifying New Chemistry
• Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change
• Fossil Fuel Costs
• Cutting Down Defenses Against Global Warming
• Soil Sequestration of Carbon
• Bill McKibben: Turn Up the Heat on Global Warming
• California Cap and Trade Faces Daunting Hurdles

Mass Extinctions

• ​"Vaquita" Extinction
• "Vaquita on Verge of Extinction" (video)
• Deforestation
• Last Chance for World's Forests
• Atlas of Endangered Species (ppt)
• Half of world's marine vertebrates are gone
• Mass Extinctions

Public Lands and Conservation Biology

• Marine Biota
• Fish Kills
• Restoring Butterfly populations (vid)
• San Gabriel Watershed in Watershed Wise
• ​E.O. Wilson on the Imperatives of ConservationI (vid)

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Transportation and Energy

• ​Going electric in Manila (vid)
• Fuel Economy Vehicles
• Killing KXL
• US Windpower Expands
• Fossil Fuel Costs
• Transit and Sustainable Cities (pdf)