BOOKS
Alley, Richard B. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Alling, Abigail, and Mark Nelson. Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2. Oracle, AZ: Biosphere Press, 1993.
Alonso, L. E., A. Alonso, T. S. Schulenberg, and F. Dallmeier, eds. Biological and Social Assessments of the Cordillera de Vilcabamba, Peru (Washington, DC: Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Sciences, 2001).
Barnosky, Anthony D. Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming. Washington, DC: Island Press, Shearwater Books, 2009.
Barrat, James. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, 2013.
Behrensmeyer, Anna K., John D. Damuth, William A. DiMichele, Richard Potts, Hans-Dieter Sues, and Scott L. Wing. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Conniff, Richard. The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
Daily, Gretchen C. Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
Daily, Gretchen C., and Katherine Ellison. The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable. Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2002.
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. First published 1859; still the premier text of evolutionary biology.
———. The Voyage of the Beagle. Ware, Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 1997. First published in 1839.
Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
———. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. New York: Free Press, 2009.
Despommier, Dickson. The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2010. Turning abandoned skyscrapers into future farms.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.
———. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Erwin, Douglas. Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. The classic book on the Permian extinction.
Ferrari, Michele, and Steven Ives. Las Vegas: An Unconventional History. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2005.
Finlayson, Clive. The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.
———. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Gould’s 1,343-page opus on punctuated equilibrium and his other thoughts on Darwinian evolution.
———. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
Guterl, Fred. The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Jackson, Rob. The Earth Remains Forever: Generations at a Crossroads. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Jones, Steve. The Darwin Archipelago: The Naturalist’s Career Beyond “Origin of Species.” New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.
Lane, Nick. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.
Leakey, Richard, and Roger Lewin. The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Martin, Paul S. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
National Research Council, Committee on Twenty-first Century Systems Agriculture. Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2010.
Nield, Ted. Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Osborne, Roger, Donald Tarling, and Stephen J. Gould, eds. The Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Celebration of Earth’s Physical Past. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Ostfeld, Richard W. Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Palmer, Douglas. Origins: Human Evolution Revealed. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2010.
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story. New York: Random House, 1994.
Ridley, Matt. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. New York: Harper-Collins, 2000.
Roberts, Callum. The Unnatural History of the Sea. Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2007.
Schlesinger, William, and Emily Bernhardt. Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change. San Diego: Academic Press, 2013.
Stager, Curt. Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2011.
Steinbeck, John. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York: Viking Press, 1951.
Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Nicholas C. Fraser. Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Tattersall, Ian. Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Terborgh, John, and James A. Estes. Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Thornton, Ian. Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Wallace, William McDonald. Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006.
Ward, Peter. Future Evolution: The Illuminated History of Life to Come. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2001.
Ward, Peter, and Donald Brownlee. The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World. New York: Times Books, 2002.
Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Zalasiewicz, Jan. The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Zubrin, Robert. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. New York: Free Press, 1996.
ARTICLES
Acuña, José Luis, Ángel López-Urrutia, and Sean Colin. “Faking Giants: The Evolution of High Prey Clearance Rates in Jellyfish.” Science 333 (September 16, 2011).
Albright, Rebecca, Benjamin Mason, Margaret Miller, and Chris Langdon. “Ocean acidification compromises recruitment of the threatened caribbean coral Acropora palmata.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 47 (November 23, 2010): 20400–404.
Alexander, Vera, Patricia Miloslavich, and Kristin Yarinchik. “The Census of Marine Life—Evolution of Worldwide Marine Biodiversity Research.” Marine Biodiversity 41, no. 4 (March 1, 2011): 545–54.
Allen, J. P., M. Nelson, and A. Alling. “The Legacy of Biosphere 2 for the study of biospherics and closed ecological systems.” Advances in Space Research 31, no. 7 (2003): 1629–40.
Amos, Jonathan. “Dirty Stars Hint at Sun’s Future.” BBC News, May 9, 2013.
Anderson, Ross. “We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction.” The Atlantic, March 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/.
Archer, Steve, David S. Schimel, and Elizabeth A. Holland. “Mechanisms of shrub-land expansion: land use, climate or CO2?” Climatic Change 29 (1995): 91–99.
Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel. “Slash-burn-and-churn: landscape history and crop cultivation in Pre-Columbian Amazonia.” Quaternary International 249 (February 6, 2012): 4–18.
Bardin, Jon. “Beneath 50-foot ice layer, an Antarctic lake full of life.” Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2012.
Barnosky, A. D. “Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of quaternary and future extinctions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (August 12, 2008): 11543–48.
Barnosky, Anthony D., Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago B. Quental, Charles Marshall, et al. “Has the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?” Nature 471 (March 3, 2011): 51–57.
Baron, Roy C., Joseph B. McCormick, and Osman A. Zubeir. “Ebola Virus Disease in Southern Sudan: Hospital Dissemination and Intrafamilial Spread.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 61, no. 6 (1985): 997–1003.
Benanav, Michael. “Through the Eyes of the Maasai.” New York Times, August 9, 2013.
Bennett, Liz. “For Sale: Black Market Orangutan Babies.” Wildlife Conservation Society, March 15, 2012, http://e.wcs.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=20162.0&dlv_id=25702.
Bergin, Chris. “Fobos-Grunt Ends Its Misery via Re-entry.” NASA, January 15, 2012, http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/01/fobus-grunt-ends-its-misery-via-re-entry/.
Biello, David. “The Origin of Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere.” Scientific American, August 19, 2009.
Blackburn, Terrence J. “Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Links End-Triassic Extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province.” Science 340, no. 6135 (May 24, 2013): 941–45.
Bostrom, Nick. “The Future of Human Evolution.” Published in Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing, ed. Charles Tandy (Ria University Press: Palo Alto, CA, 2004), 339–71.
Brunner, Jesse, et al. “An experimental test of competition among mice, chipmunks, and squirrels in deciduous forest fragments.” PLOS ONE, June 18, 2013.
Bryson, Donna. “Wildlife Drive Grows from Superfund Site.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 19, 2012. www.sfgate.com.
“Burgess Shale: Strange Creatures—A Burgess Shale Fossil Sampler.” Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, http://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess. This is a good source for Burgess Shale animals including Opabinia, Amiskwia, and Anomalocaris.
Burgess, Seth D., Samuel Bowring, and Shu-zhong Shen. “High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 10, 2014.
Bush, Mark B., Miles R. Silman, Dunia H. Urrego. “48,000 Years of Climate and Forest Change in a Biodiversity Hot Spot.” Science 303, no. 5659, (February 6, 2004): 827–29.
Cardinale, Bradley J. “Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity.” Nature 486, (June 7, 2012): 941–45.
Carr, Steve. “UNM Researchers Explore Evolution of World’s Mammals Over the Past 100 Million Years.” University of New Mexico, November 25, 2010.
Chan, F. “Emergence of Anoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystems.” Science 319, February 15, 2008, sciencemag.org.
Cisneros-Montemayor, Andres, et al. “Global economic value of shark ecotourism: implications for conservation.” Oryx, July 2013.
Cohen, Chad. “Bioinvasion: From Old World to New.” National Geographic News, January 23, 2001.
Conde, Dalia A. “Modeling male and female habitat difference for jaguar conservation.” Biological Conservation, May 31, 2010.
Coughlan, Sean. “Are humans going to become extinct?” BBC News, April 23, 2013.
Cross, Wyatt F., et al. “Food-web dynamics in a large river discontinuum.” Ecological Monographs 83, no. 3 (August 2013).
Dalhousie University. “Shark Fisheries Globally Unsustainable: New Study—Researchers Estimate 100 Million Sharks Die Every Year.” Newswise, Dalhousie University, March 1, 2013.
Dell’Amore, Christine. “Next Ice Age Delayed by Global Warming, Study Says.” National Geographic News, September 3, 2009.
Deneen, Sally. “Feds Slash Colorado River Release to Historic Lows.” National Geographic, August 16, 2013.
Deng, Tao, et al. “Out of Tibet: Pliocene Wooly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores.” Science 333, no. 6047 (September 2, 2011): 1285–88.
Donlan, Josh C., et al. “Pleistocene Rewilding: An Optimistic Vision for 21st Century Conservation.” The American Naturalist, November 2006.
“Doomsday Clock Moves One Minute Closer to Midnight. It is Now 5 Minutes to Midnight.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 10, 2012.
Dreifus, Claudia. “Studying Evolution with an Eye on the Future.” New York Times, July 30, 2012.
Dupuis II, Alan P. “Isolation of deer tick virus (Powassan virus, lineage II) from Ixodes scapularis and detection of antibody in vertebrate hosts sampled in the Hudson Valley, New York State.” Parasites and Vectors, July 15, 2013.
Ehrlich, Paul and Anne Ehrlich. “The Population Bomb Revisited.” The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development 1, no. 3 (2009). Population-Bomb-Revisited-Paul-Ehrlich_20096-6.pdf, www.ejsd.org.
Esters, James A., et al. “Using Ecological Function to Develop Recovery Criteria for Depleted Species: Sea Otters and Kelp.” Conservation Biology (2010).
Estes, James A., et al. “Causes and consequences of marine mammal population declines in southwest Alaska: a food-web perspective.” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. (June 25, 2009).
Estes, James A., et al. “Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth.” Science 333, no. 6040 (July 15, 2011): 301–6.
Estrada-Pena, et al. “Effects of environmental change on zoonotic disease risk: an ecological primer.” Trends in Parasitology 30, no. 4 (April 2014), 205–14.
European Geoscience Union. “The oldest ice core. Finding a 1.5 million-year record of Earth’s climate.” EurekAlert! November 5, 2013.
European Space Agency. “Choosing the right people to go to Mars.” January 13, 2013. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Mars500/Choosing_the_right_people_to_go_to_Ma.
Evans, Alistair R., et al. “The maximum rate of mammal evolution.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (October 1, 2011), http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/26/1120774109.abstract.
Evolution UC Berkeley. “Ensatina’s basic story was laid out by Robert Stebbins 30 years before Tom was born in 1977.” Evolution Web Site, http://evolution.berkeley.edu.
“Experts Reaffirm Asteroid Impact Caused Mass Extinction,” University of Texas Austin. March 4, 2010, http://www.utexas.edu/news/2010/03/04/mass_extinction/.
Fecht, Sarah. “Going Wireless and Restoring Memories: The Incredible Future of Brain Implants.” Popular Mechanics, June 17, 2013.
Fernández-Busquets, Xavier, et al. “Self-recognition and Ca2+-dependent carbohydrate–carbohydrate cell adhesion provide clues to the Cambrian Explosion.” Molecular Biology and Evolution 2b, no. 11 (2009): 2551.
Fienberg, Rick. “JPL: ‘Mount Sharp’ on Mars Links Geology’s Past & Future.” American Astronomical Society, March 28, 2012.
———. “JPL: Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting.” American Astronomical Society, October 20, 2011.
———. “MIT: Are you a Martian? We could all be, scientists say.” American Astronomical Society, March 23, 2011.
Flynn, Sian. “The Race to the South Pole.” BBC History in Depth. March 3, 2011.
Frenzen, P. “30 Years Later, Forest Rebirth is Well Under Way.” US Forest Service, Mt. Saint Helens Volcanic Monument. http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/mountsthelens/learning/nature-science.
———. “How is plant recovery likely to proceed in future?” (Mt. Saint Helens) USDA Forest Service, 1994.
———. “Life Returns: Frequently Asked Questions about Plant and Animal Recovery Following the 1980 Eruption.” US Forest Service, Mt. Saint Helens Volcanic Monument. http://www.fs.usda.gov/mountsthelens.
Gaffin, Stuart R., Cynthia Rosenzweig, and Angela Y. Y. Kong. “Adapting to climate change through urban green infrastructure.” Nature Climate Change 2 (October 2012).
Gallessich, Gail. “Major Study of Ocean Acidification Helps Scientist Evaluate Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Marine Life.” Public Affairs & Communications, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 23, 2013, http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2618.
Gamo, Toshitaka, Harue Masuda, Toshiro Yamanaka, Kei Okamura, Junichiro Ishibashi, Eichiro Nakayama, Hajime Obata, et al. “Discovery of a new hydrothermal venting site in the southernmost Mariana arc.” Geochemical Journal 38 (2004): 527–34.
Garrabou, J., R. Coma, N. Bensoussan, M. Bally, P. Chevaldonné, M. Cigliano, D. Diaz, et al. “Mass Mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean Rocky Benthic Communities: Effects of the 2003 Heat Wave.” Global Change Biology 15, no. 5 (May 2009): 1090–1103.
Garrity, Lyn. “Evolution World Tour: Mount St. Helens Washington: Over thirty years after the volcanic eruptions, plant and animal life has returned to the disaster site, a veritable living laboratory.” Smithsonian, January 2012.
Garthwaite, Josie. “Into the Permian: In Mongolia, 298-million-year-old plant fossils paint a portrait of what life was like long before the dinosaurs.” Discover, November 2012.
Gettleman, Jeffrey. “Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits.” New York Times, September 3, 2012.
Gillis, Justin. “Deep Thinking About the Future of Food.” New York Times, October 12, 2011.
Gilly, William F., and Unai Markaida. “Perspectives on Dosidicus gigas in a changing world.” Workshop: The role of squid in open ocean ecosystems, Hawaii, November 16–17, 2006.
Gilly, William. “Searching for the Spirits of the Sea of Cortez.” Steinbeck Studies 15, no. 2 (Fall 2004).
Gorenflo, L. J., Suzanne Romaine, Russell A. Mittermeier, and Kristen Walker-Painemilla. “Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, no. 21 (May 7, 2012): 8032–57.
Grieco, Theresa M., et al. “A Modular Framework Characterizes Micro- and Macroevolution of Old World Monkey Dentitions.” Evolution, January 2013.
Gugliotta, Guy. “The Great Human Migration: Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world.” Smithsonian, July 2008.
Hall, Stephen S. “The Other Humans: Neanderthals Revealed.” National Geographic, October 2008.
Hammer, Joshua. “The Hunt for Ebola.” Smithsonian, November 2012.
Handwerk, Brian. “Do Hammerheads Follow Magnetic Highways to Migration?” National Geographic News, June 6, 2002.
Harris, John M. “Bones from the Tar Pits.” Natural History, June 2007.
Hawks, John, et al. “Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (December 26, 2007).
Hester, Keith, et al. “Unanticipated consequences of ocean acidification: A noisier ocean at lower pH.” Geophysical Research Letters 35 (October 1, 2008).
Hof, Robert D. “Deep Learning: With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart.” MIT Technology Review, April 23, 2013.
Hoffman, Hillel J. “The Permian Extinction.” National Geographic, September 2000.
Hollingham, Richard. “Building a new society in space.” BBC Future, March 18, 2013.
Holloway, Marguerite. “Cuttlefish Say It With Skin.” Natural History, April 2000.
“How to Get Along for 500 Days Alone Together.” BBC News Magazine, March 1, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21619765.
“How Volcanoes Work: Krakatau, Indonesia,” Geology, San Diego State University, http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Krakatau.html.
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). “Boom in jellyfish: Overfishing called into question.” ScienceDaily, May 3, 2013.
Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), “Even farm animal diversity is declining as accelerating species loss threatens humanity.” EurekAlert! May 27, 2013.
Irmis, Randall B., Sterling J. Nesbitt, and Hans-Dieter Sues. “Early Crocodylomorpha.” From “Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin.” Geological Society of London Special Publications 379: 275–302. First published online June 11, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP379.24.
Jackson, Robert B., et al. “Natural gas pipeline leaks across Washington, DC.” Environmental Science & Technology 48, no. 3 (January 16, 2014): 2051–58.
James, Ian. “Officials discuss solutions for sea: Officials, residents optimistic concerted efforts can succeed.” Desert Sun, April 27, 2013.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. “Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.” http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty.aspx.
Johnson, Donald: “Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa?” Action Bioscience, May 2001.
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Kaufman, Frederick. “The Second Green Revolution: An Alliance of Organic Farmers and Genetic Engineers.” Popular Science, posted January 20, 2011.
Kaufman, Leslie. “Zoos’ Bitter Choice: To Save Some Species, Letting Others Die.” New York Times, May 27, 2012.
Keesing, Felicia, and Truman P. Young. “Cascading Consequences of the Loss of Large Mammals in an African Savanna.” BioScience, May 7, 2014.
Khan, Amina. “Study: Mars could have held watery underground oases for life.” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2013.
Kluger, Jeffrey. “Live from Mars: A one-ton Rover can teach us a lot about the red planet—and the blue one too.” Time, August 30, 2012.
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Kolbert, Elizabeth. “Sleeping with the Enemy: What Happened Between the Neanderthals and Us?” New Yorker, August 15 and 22, 2011.
Kotler, Steven. “Evolution’s Next Stage: Driven by technological advances, humans are changing faster than ever. Coming soon: our next stage, Homo evolutus.” Discover, March 2013.
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“Krill face deadly cost of ocean acidification,” Australian Antarctic Division, October 13, 2010, www.antarctica.gov.au.
Kroeker, Kristy J., Fiorenza Micheli, Maria Cristina Gambi, and Todd R. Martz. “Divergent Ecosystem Responses Within a Benthic Marine Community to Ocean Acidification.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 35 (August 30, 2011): 14515–20.
Kumar, Alexander. “Viewpoint: When will we send humans to Mars?” BBC News: Science and Environment, September 21, 2012.
Kunzig, Robert. “Seven Billion: Special Series.” National Geographic, January 2011.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “Megavolcanoes Tied to Pre-Dinosaur Extinction: An Apparent Sudden Climate Shift Could Have Analog today.” Columbia University, Earth Institute, March 20, 2013.
Langford, Kate. “400,000 farmers in Africa use fertilizer trees to improve food security.” World Agroforestry Centre, October 14, 2011, http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/newsroom/highlights/400000-farmers-africa-use-fertilizer-trees-improve-food-security.
Lawrence, Robert S. “The Rise of Antibiotic Resistance: Consequences of FDA’s Inaction.” The Atlantic, January 23, 2012.
Le Page, Michael, “Reshaping Eden: the future of biodiversity.” New Scientist, April 24, 2010.
Lemonick, Michael D. “Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs.” Time, November 23, 2009.
Lewis, Richard. “Land animals, ecosystems walloped after Permian dieoff.” Brown University, October 25, 2011.
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Marshall, Michael. “Animals are already dissolving in Southern Ocean.” New Scientist, November 25, 2012.
Martin, Ronald, and Antonietta Quigg. “Tiny Plants That Once Ruled the Seas: Why did animal life in the ocean explode with diversity about 250 million years ago? The driving force may have been the rise of phytoplankton.” Scientific American, June 2013.
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “Woolly rhino fossil discovery in Tibet provides important clues to evolution of Ice Age giants.” ScienceDaily, September 2, 2011.
Nature Conservancy. “Palmyra: A Marine Wilderness: Palmyra is that rare place where top predators such as sharks still dominate the reef ecosystem.” www.nature.org.
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