Earth Sciences
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | 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 ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
( Category: Endangered Species March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-02 | Author:David R. Montgomery

Figure 15. Map of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States showing the net depth of topsoil eroded from colonial times to i98o (modified from Meade i98z, 241, fig. ...
( Category: Soil Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Kim Barnes

I settled into my basement room, larger than many of the shacks we had lived in. I lay in bed that first night, gauging the darkness against the city’s sounds ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Fred Pearce

We now know that two main ice sheets formed. One stretched from the British Isles across the North Sea and Scandinavia, and then west through Russia and western Siberia, and ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Tim Flannery

As of early 2008, humanity had just thirty-seven days' worth of grain supply in reserve. It's been said that the ancient Romans had a more generous buffer against famine. As ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Christian Parenti

From Guerrillas to Gangs Behind bars, the political radicals of Galeria B of Cândido Mendes Prison organized themselves and then united with the general-population inmates. The common criminals saw how ...
( Category: Conservation March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Alan Weisman

5. Beyond the Farm Rothamsted research scientist Paul Poulton stands in November drizzle, knee-deep in holly, surrounded by what will be around after human cultivation ceases. Born just a few ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Mark Lynas

BOUNDARY SIX TOXICS There is perhaps no better illustration of the domestication of our world than how rapidly we are turning it into plastic. Plastics are everywhere. In the deepest ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hansen, James [Hansen, James]

IN 2007, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND writer Bill McKibben began bugging me, very politely, to either confirm 450 parts per million as the appropriate target level of carbon dioxide in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:James Hansen

I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus

THE RISE AND FALL OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS A Cautionary Tale Mark Sagoff In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform — even to revolutionize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Spratt, David & Sutton, Philip [Spratt, David]

CHAPTER 17 When ‘Reasonable’ Is Not Enough In November 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world that global warming is an emergency, and ‘for emergency situations we need emergency ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Lee Child

( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )