Climatology
epub |eng | | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Natural History August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Shana Lee Hirsch

EXPERIMENTATION AND EMERGENCE There are people like Woodruff throughout the Columbia River Basin: people who are experimenting with innovative ways to restore the ecosystem processes that were (sometimes completely) lost ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Schlegelmilch

EVERYBODY OWNS PART, NOBODY OWNS ALL Disasters are responded to by those immediately impacted, as well as agencies and organizations outside of the impacted area. The effects are also felt ...
( Category: Infectious Disease July 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Tom Rand

* * * i — An externality is an unaccounted-for cost (or benefit) that hits a third party who didn’t choose to take on that cost (or benefit). Throwing out ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 27,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Clifford M. Will & Nicolás Yunes [Will, Clifford M. & Yunes, Nicolás]

Because the Schwarzschild radius is the boundary between what can and cannot communicate with the outside world, it came to be called the “event horizon.” Just as you cannot receive ...
( Category: Climatology July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Giles Whittell

Fredston says the dust cloud from the collapsing World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, reminded her of powder blast from an avalanche. Its physics is similar to the pyroclastic ...
( Category: Weather July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Thomas M. Kostigen

( Category: Environmental Policy July 21,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Bjorn Lomborg [LOMBORG, BJORN]

CARBON TAXES ARE a good idea, and should be implemented as efficiently as possible. We need to be realistic, however, about what they can and cannot do. A modest, increasing ...
( Category: Environmental Science July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Mario Alejandro Ariza [ALEJANDRO ARIZA, MARIO]

FEUDING WHILE ROME BOGS The West Palm Beach campus of the South Florida Water Management District could be mistaken for the suburban offices of a telemarketing firm. A pair of ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Randall, David A.

or Because in general the air is moving with respect to the Earth, r is changing with time as seen in the rotating frame. According to (A4.3), the velocity as ...
( Category: Weather July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isabel Losada

My shoulders hurt and my thighs are bruised from the tom-tom drum banging against my legs. I stick plasters over blisters on my fingers, wash my hair and floss my ...
( Category: Climatology July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-22 | Author:Ben Ehrenreich

Bison skulls, 1870 It’s worth asking again. Is it possible to write without plundering? To leave something behind that is true? I don’t mean writing that is innocent. Such a ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Chomsky, Noam; Derber, Charles; Moodliar, Suren

New York – Prior to 2019, the largest mobilization against climate change involved hundreds of thousands of participants – 310,000 when demonstrators of all ages joined the “People’s Climate March” ...
( Category: Arms Control July 7,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Peter D. Ward

A SHORT FERRY RIDE FROM SEATTLE LIES AN UPSCALE COMMUTER HAVEN called Bainbridge Island. Each morning thousands of suits take the 30-minute ride from suburbia to downtown offices and then ...
( Category: Paleontology July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-07-14 | Author:John Firor & Judith Jacobsen

International Scientific Reviews In the 1980s, models achieved a high degree of sophistication, but they rather consistently showed a warming during the twentieth century about twice as large as that ...
( Category: Environmental Science July 6,2020 )