Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Elliott A. Norse [Norse, Elliott A.]

1. In many ways, ecosystem fragments are islands. Insularity means being surrounded by any barrier. To a species that does equally well in forests and grasslands, a forested patch in ...
( Category: Engineering April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David George Haskell

Interlude: Maple I. Sewanee, Tennessee 35°11'46.0" N, 85°55'05.5" W II. Chicago, Illinois 41°52'46.6" N, 87°37'35.7" W Maple I I stand on the ridgeline of a house, my arms reaching up ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-04-05 | Author:Nicholas Stern [Stern, Nicholas]

Part III Action around the World: Progress, Collaboration, Equity 7 Developments in Climate Action around the World Sound domestic climate policies in a country can foster growth and change that ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Hayden, Joy [Hayden, Joy]

Photo showing the depth of the water at the peak of the flood in McCook. Museum of the High Plains . The McCook Power Plant before the flood. Museum of ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-27 | Author:Offenhuber, Dietmar; Ratti, Carlo;

Truck Collection Truck collection was guided by a different logic. COOPAMARE has two trucks, but at the time of our fieldwork, only one person had a driver’s license—former cooperative members ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Jonathan White

The next morning I crank Crusader’s 150-pound anchor aboard and motor toward the snow-topped peaks of the coastal range and the narrowing channels of Sechelt Inlet. The tide is flooding ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 5,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-03 | Author:Joseph Romm

( Category: Earth Sciences April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Craig F. Bohren

12 Once in a Blue Moon Yf they saye the mone is belewe We must beleve that it is true Anonymous—16th century Charles E. Funk: A Hog on Ice Rare ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Nelson, Velvet; [Nelson, Velvet]

Box 7.3. Experience: Traveling on an African Passport I was born in Zimbabwe. I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel quite a bit, but I wasn’t prepared ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Jonathan Watts [Watts, Jonathan]

Northeast Alternatives 13 Science versus Math Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning China is a country where once they realize, “Gee, we have to do something,” then they leap forward. —Suntech founder ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

CHAPTER 9 The True Cost of Fossil Fuels The Future of Energy Is Not Down a Hole “We pull out of the ground death. We burn death in our power ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Charles Tobias & Jane Gray Morrison

We have it on Upton Sinclair’s own authority that such a Utopia is not easily created. He had tried throughout the latter half of 1906 (with income generated by the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Landscape Architecture Foundation

Gina Ford is principal, landscape architect, and chair of Sasaki’s Urban Studio. She holds degrees in architecture from Wellesley College and landscape architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Chapter ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:John R. Wennersten

AFRICA REFUGEES BY THE NUMBERS Africa is already home to some fourteen million people worldwide displaced by political turmoil and war, but experts say climate change is driving Africa’s displacement ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-04 | Author:Wilshire, Howard G.; Nielson, Jane E.; Hazlett, Richard W. & Jane E. Nielson & Richard W. Hazlett

The fearful link The United States mines uranium mainly from sedimentary deposits in 5 of the 11 western states.78 Dangerous underground uranium mining (see chapter 7) ended in 1992, and ...
( Category: Engineering April 4,2018 )