Earth Sciences
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Rachel Carson

Some of our Stone Age ancestors must have known the rigors of life near the glaciers. While men as well as plants and animals moved southward before the ice, some ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 14,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Mark Denny

FIGURE 6.7. Detail from a sixteenth-century townscape of Seville, home port for the Spanish expeditions of discovery, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. By royal decree, all ships sailing between Europe and ...
( Category: Earth Sciences June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:The Union of Concerned Scientists

ASK THE EXPERTS Does Wood Harvested Sustainably Really Make a Difference? Most of us use wood products every day and purchase more than we realize. Of course, furniture and many ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Wilhelm, Kevin [Wilhelm, Kevin]

Socially Responsible Investing Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) refers to the incorporation of the investor’s social or ethical criteria in the investment decision-making process. Before I write about the specifics of ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales June 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Robert Swan & Gil Reavill

Icewalk Fifteen minutes of fame is short. The media glare shone brightly upon In the Footsteps of Scott, illuminated us for a brief moment, then winked out. But people remembered. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

Figure 19. US energy consumption by source (Source: US Energy Information Administration) France and the UK, despite having pursued breeder programs for several decades, have no plans for constructing more ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-30 | Author:Gino Segrè [Segrè, Gino]

Some Like It Hot The tubeworms living on the hydrothermal vents were definitely a surprise. So were the bacteria. They should all have been dead at vent temperatures. After all, ...
( Category: Physics June 13,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Chris Goodall [Goodall, Chris]

6 ELECTRIC CARS The inevitable switch to battery propulsion IN 0CTOBER 2007, the Israeli-born Californian software engineer Shai Agassi announced a plan to accelerate the move to the all-electric car. ...
( Category: Engineering June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Sean Esbjorn-Hargens & Michael E. Zimmerman [Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean & Zimmerman, Michael E.]

To truly engage with inhabitants in community-directed work, the development practitioner must be able to “meet people where they are,” in terms of both their value systems and their ways ...
( Category: Philosophy June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Subhankar Banerjee

Red Dog Mine—the second largest zinc and fourth largest lead mine in the world, Western Arctic, Alaska. (Photograph by Florian Schulz, 2009.) Sadly, that too is already twenty years ago. ...
( Category: Photography & Video June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Sandi Doughton [Doughton, Sandi]

Nisqually was Carol Davis’s most serene seismic experience. From the chairlift at Crystal Mountain ski area, she noticed something odd about the treetops. “They were dancing, waving back and forth,” ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Frances Moore Lappe [Lappe, Frances Moore]

thought trap 7: IT’S TOO LATE! It’s too late! Human beings have so far overshot what nature can handle that we’re beyond the point of no return. Democracy has failed—it’s ...
( Category: Engineering June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Paul Farmer

Knowing that billions of dollars have been spent in Haiti over recent years can lead to cynicism about aid effectiveness. Tim Schwartz and several others have offered scathing assessments of ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Rachel Carson

11 Indian Summer of the Sea THE SPIRIT OF THE autumn sea was heard in the voices of the kittiwakes, or frost gulls, who began to arrive in flocks by ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi Cullen

Perhaps because of what Gearheard, Pearce, and others have seen personally, many scientists believe that cultural preservation, along with housing and infrastructure improvements, is an important way to help the ...
( Category: Weather June 8,2017 )