epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Avise, John

Factoid: Did you know? Gestational diabetes occurs in about 4% of human pregnancies, meaning that approximately 135,000 pregnant women per year experience this condition in the United States alone. Factoid: ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Rachel Smolker [Smolker, Rachel]

Andrew and I were out surveying dolphin groups. We came across the male triplet Trips, Bite, and Cetus, with Yogi, a female, and the males Realnotch, Hi, and Patches. Booboo, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Mladenov, Philip V. [Mladenov, Philip V.]

20. Aerial view of coral reefs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Physical requirements Notwithstanding their importance, coral reefs occupy a very small proportion of the planet’s surface—about 284,000 ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Christopher Kemp

The whale that washed ashore on Manpuriya beach had looked lean and sickly. Scientists from Sri Lanka’s National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency told reporters from the Daily Mirror ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Susan Casey

Just after dawn the next morning I drove to Honokohau Harbor, watching the sky turn from navy pink to apricot blue to lavender gold. At the docks, we split into ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-06 | Author:Helen Scales [Scales, Helen]

I step into the cool, dim interior of the Museo del Bisso – the Byssus Museum – and instantly feel as if I have walked into the fairy tale that ...

mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...

mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

18. The Canals of Mars In 1877 (as in 1971) the planet Mars was close–forty million miles from Earth. European astronomers, with newly developed telescopes, prepared for what was then ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:McCalman, Iain [McCalman, Iain]

PART THREE Wonder 9 OBSESSION The Quest to Prove the Origins of the Reef PEOPLE WHO KNEW American zoologist Alex Agassiz described him as a kindly, gentle, and eminently rational ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...