Earth Sciences
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Arnalds, Olafur [Arnalds, Olafur]

Oskarsson et al. (2004) used the AUI database to see the average depth distribution of carbon for the different soil types. The results for Sandy and Cambic Vitrisols, Brown Andosols, ...
( Category: Geology June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Marder

eating our dust . . . Not by accident, two of the most thought-provoking and relatively recent books on dust—Joseph Amato’s 2000 Dust: A History of the Small & the ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-27 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

Change, change, change throughout the Antarctic century. What we think we see, in the far South, shifts with our own preoccupations, like the jumbled icefloes in Antarctic waters which have ...
( Category: Geography May 28,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Kroonenberg, Salomon [Kroonenberg, Salomon]

How to descend into a mine, according to Agricola in his De re metallica (1556). Others say that the Creator hid metal ore inside the Earth for a reason: that ...
( Category: Geology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Kolbert, Elizabeth & Spufford, Francis [Kolbert, Elizabeth]

Change, change, change throughout the Antarctic century. What we think we see, in the far South, shifts with our own preoccupations, like the jumbled icefloes in Antarctic waters which have ...
( Category: Geography May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:Vandana Shiva

CHAPTER FOUR The World Bank, the WTO, and Corporate Control Over Water Giant water projects, in most cases, benefit the powerful and dispossess the weak. Even when such projects are ...
( Category: Environmental May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Hoffman, Andrew J. [Hoffman, Andrew J.]

5 HISTORICAL ANALOGIES FOR CULTURAL CHANGE Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. —H. G. Wells Consider the central cultural question of climate change: Do ...
( Category: Political Parties May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kara Murphy Schlichting

Sherwood Island and the Connecticut Shore In 1914 Albert M. Turner identified 230-acre Sherwood Island as the best site for a state beach in Fairfield County, setting the stage for ...
( Category: Geography May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Ziya Tong

* * * — IN BEIJING, A NEW COLOUR was named by the general public in November 2014. They called it “APEC blue.” It was the result of a mission ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 16,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Robert Henson

Global warming itself may be responsible for some of the dimming – perhaps around a third – as it increases the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere (which makes ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Garry Jenkins [Jenkins, Garry]

Hatfield’s name was on almost every tongue in San Diego yesterday. Many were inclined to jest when his operations were mentioned, but all agreed that things were coming his way. ...
( Category: American Revolution May 9,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasse & Simons, Jeffrey & Liu, Charles [Tyson, Neil deGrasse]

TOUR GUIDE Could We Suffer a Runaway Greenhouse Effect, Like Venus? Credit 308 Research shows Venus once had oceans, but they all boiled away—a result of a runaway greenhouse effect ...
( Category: Astronomy May 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-29 | Author:Ian Plimer [Plimer, Ian]

( Category: Environmental Science May 4,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Philip Ball [Ball, Philip]

HEXAGONAL NEST CELLS A wasp (Vespula vulgaris) working on its nest. Why and how does it make the cells hexagonal? Evidently there are no agents shaping these rafts as bees ...
( Category: Plants & Animals May 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Jan Sapp

THE GBRMPA Kenchington thought it unlikely that the occurrence of such a phenomenon affecting the Great Barrier Reef would ever again develop into so complex a controversy. In the first ...
( Category: Marine Life May 3,2019 )