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Standards Index: ESS3.D: Global Climate Change

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Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gasses from burning fossil fuels, are    major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming).

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Ecology: The Yellowstone Wildfires of 1988

Students will learn how the Yellowstone fires of 1988 created a national controversy that challenged long-held assumptions about the role that fires should play in forestry policy.