Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Paul Kingsnorth [Paul Kingsnorth]

For now, I’ve had enough of writing. My head is buzzing with it. I am going to pick up my new scythe, lovingly made for me recently from sugar maple, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-11 | Author:Betsy D'Annibale

Tornado destruction in Sandusky, Ohio. Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. Down by the railroad yard, the funnel sucked an office building off its foundation. When it collapsed, three people died. ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 11,2018 )
epub | | 2011-12-19 | Author:Pierre Laszlo, Mary Beth Mader

five biology The ocean is salty, and its saltiness keeps increasing with the bite of time: rainwater dissolves and sweeps away mineral salts from soils, and rivers then carry them ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Gonzalez & Eugene Parker

Keywords Current sheetMagnetospheric reconnectionMagnetotailPlasma sheetReconnection onsetSubstorms 7.1 Introduction In the Solar system, the Earth’s magnetosphere is a unique example of a fair balance between external driving and inherent dynamics. Mercury, ...
( Category: Physics April 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Harvey H. Jackson

ELEVEN Taming the Redneck Riviera SHORTLY AFTER THE 1978 Howell Raines New York Times article gave the Redneck Riviera national exposure, concerns that the nickname might bring negative publicity to ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:Pierre Lescaudron & Laura Knight-Jadczyk [Lescaudron, Pierre]

* * * [564]: Master, J., ‘Arctic sea ice loss tied to unusual jet stream patterns’, Weather Underground, 2 April 2012. See: www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/arctic-sea-ice-loss-tied-to-unusual-jet-stream-patterns * * * [565]: ‘Air pressure and ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer M. Collins & Kevin Walsh

2.1 One-Dimensional Model Studies Previous work has suggested that TCMIs are unique to Australia because of the ability of sandy soil to rapidly release huge amounts of energy when moistened ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Roel Snieder & Ken Larner [Snieder, Roel & Larner, Ken]

1 University administrators and funding agencies sometimes use (or abuse) this infor mation as a measure of the quality of researchers. This is one reason that it is important that ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Richard Heinberg [Heinberg, Richard]

SNAKE BITES 1. THE INDUSTRY SHILLS SAY: Hydraulic fracturing technology has a strong environmental track record. THE REALITY IS: Fracking consumes millions of gallons of freshwater, pollutes groundwater and air, ...
( Category: Engineering April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:William M. Alley

9 That Sinking Feeling Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his [use] without limit—in a world that is limited. —Garrett ...
( Category: Engineering April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Nancy Langston [Langston, Nancy]

SEVEN The Mysteries of Toxaphene and Toxic Fish THE PERSISTENT, BIOACCUMULATIVE chemical named toxaphene offers a case study on the history of toxic contamination in Lake Superior fish. How did ...
( Category: Americas April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Mike Hulme

Given the deficiencies of the UNFCCC, it is difficult to envisage geopolitical circumstances in which conditions would be propitious for reaching agreement on these matters. The proponents of the idea ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Carl H Hobbs

Figure 6.8 An infrared photograph of Quinby Inlet, on the lower Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia, depicts an offset inlet and an ebb-tidal delta. The growth of the bulbous end of Hog ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Bill Streever

Among sailors, frigate birds are sometimes said to come just before bad weather. More analytical sailors might say that they ride the leading edges of fronts. In contrast, Robert FitzRoy ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Mooney

Severe Tropical Cyclone Monica just north of Australia on April 23, 2006, possibly the most intense storm ever observed in the Southern Hemisphere. Image credit: Naval Research Lab April 24 ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2018 )