Discovery Channel's Shark Week 2013 is just beginning, but concerns about the approach Discovery Channel has taken this week has already been questioned by scientists and the general public. Be sure you have the accurate information before heading back to the classroom this fall, as many of our students are huge fans of Shark Week.

Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat Geyser — the world's tallest — has erupted for the first time in more than eight years. On July 31, 2013, the nine-minute blast sent steaming hot water an estimated 200 to 300 feet in the air. Unlike the park's popular and famous Old Faithful geyser, which spews water like clockwork every hour-and-a-half, no one knows when Steamboat will erupt next. In the past, it's gone as long as 50 years without a major event. In 1964, it erupted a record 29 times. The last blast came in 2005.

Climate change alters the way in which species interact with one another--a reality that applies not just to today or to the future, but also to the past. "We found that, at all time scales, climate change can alter biotic interactions in very complex ways," said paleoecologist Jessica Blois of the University of California, Merced, the study's lead author. "If we don't incorporate this information when we're anticipating future changes, we're missing a big piece of the puzzle."

The Hubble Space Telescope‘s keen eye has revealed a previously undetected moon orbiting Neptune.  The July 1, 2013 discovery , 24 years after Voyager 2 swung by the icy-blue giant, expands the known retinue of circling moons to 14.

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