Environmental Science
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Shellenberger

4. Fracking Nukes In spring 2016, Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, traveled to Chicago to speak at a gala fundraising dinner hosted by Illinois’s leading ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roman Bartosch

However, the seemingly head-on engagement with politics is surprising only if one overlooks that the voice uttering the opinions is an increasingly disembodied one, a nonperson. While in 1992, Coetzee ...
( Category: Modern June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Matthew Gandy [Gandy, Matthew]

Figure 6.5 Rainham Marshes, Essex (2010). Photo: Matthew Gandy. The Thames estuary forms part of London’s natural flood defenses, since these low-lying areas would help to reduce the impact of ...
( Category: Environmental June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ali Salehabadi & Mardiana Idayu Ahmad & Norli Ismail & Norhashimah Morad & Morteza Enhessari

4.4 Carbon-Based Materials Reviews drawn from literature help us to draw a conclusion that the carbon materials are the best solid-state host for hydrogen storage (Alicia et al. 2017; Liu ...
( Category: Materials Science June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fritz Scholz & Heike Kahlert

The formation of mixed crystals (solid solutions) is not only an issue in analytical chemistry but plays an important role in many technologies too, including roles in the metallurgy and ...
( Category: Biochemistry June 29,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Bill McKibben

But now it’s done. There’s really nowhere plausible left to run a highway. And not only that; almost everything else is done, too. The last real National Projects were putting ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:John C. Mutter

IPCC work is shared between three working groups: Working Group I: assesses the physical scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change. Working Group II: assesses the vulnerability of ...
( Category: Weather June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-14 | Author:Laura Lee [Laura Lee]

The Water of Waterloo If it had not rained on the night of June 17, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed…. A few drops of rain mastered ...
( Category: Weather June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Mark J. Plotkin

Do uncontacted and isolated tribes still exist? The concept of uncontacted or isolated rainforest tribes enthralls many people, even those who have no other particular interest in tribal cultures or ...
( Category: Native American Studies June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Yasushi Nishihara

Kumada-Tamao-Corriu coupling is a longstanding methodology for the synthesis of oligothiophenes 1 that do not bear electrophilic functional groups, as shown in Scheme 5.1 [14]. Because the obtained products show ...
( Category: Polymers & Textiles June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-24 | Author:Mildenberger, Matto; [Mildenberger, Matto]

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme The PMTGET released its report in advance of the Fall 2007 election. Alongside industrial relations, climate change defined that campaign. Both Liberal and Labor pro-climate ...
( Category: Canadian June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald McKenzie

You can understand why these fine-scale subtleties matter for practical considerations like firefighting or protecting habitat for sensitive species. For firefighting, understanding how topography and wind interact during a fire ...
( Category: Geology June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Marshall, Shawn.

GLACIER DYNAMICS Glaciers flow through three different mechanisms: internal “creep” deformation, decoupled sliding at the ice–bed interface, and deformation of subglacial sediments (figure 6.3). The former is a function of ...
( Category: Weather June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-19 | Author:Frank R. Spellman

So Necessary, but So Easy to Abuse If water is so precious, so necessary for sustaining life, then two questions arise: (1) Why do we ignore water? (2) Why do ...
( Category: Ecology June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-31 | Author:Karl Coplan

8 Grappling with the Big Four Electricity, Heat, Transportation, and Food Keeping to a 4-ton annual carbon budget (or whatever goal you set) is going to require that you tackle ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 23,2020 )