Environmental Science
epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:James Lovelock

14 A Shout of Joy So my last word on the Anthropocene is a shout of joy – joy at the colossal expansion of our knowledge of the world and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 27,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Diana Beresford-Kroeger

TWELVE Splitting Wood I left my job at the University of Ottawa in 1982. By that point, eight or nine years into our residency, the farm was starting to take ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dieter Helm

More can be extracted from existing wells A second blow to the peak oil theorists is the fact that technological progress not only makes it possible to find and exploit ...
( Category: Climatology February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Stephanie Kaza

CHAPTER 16 Lineage of Fear DUSK. A SPOOKY SILENCE SETTLES OVER THE FOREST. I am here alone, or at least I think I’m alone. The creeping darkness slips in through ...
( Category: Ecology February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac

* * * — Learn to distinguish between real science and pseudoscience. In 2017, the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank funded in part by the Mercer Family Foundation, sent ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Peter Schwartzman & David Schwartzman

6.3.Nuclear power redux Throughout modern history, almost all communities have moved in the direction of greater levels of energy consumption per capita. And with the human population continuing to grow ...
( Category: Climatology February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Douglas W. Tallamy

— This has been a heady and heavy discussion, but it needed to be to cover this complex situation. At this point, enough studies have been completed and enough information ...
( Category: Organic February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-25 | Author:William M. Alley

Secret Science Accusations In 2018, air pollution was on the front lines of yet another major attack on science. In April, Scott Pruitt held a press conference to announce a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-23 | Author:Anthony McMichael

In the latter half of the 1780s, there were long droughts in Mexico, southern Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. During 1785–1786, Mexico experienced a severe famine, recalled as the ...
( Category: Public Health February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:W. Hodding Carter

Bill sets up another Kissimmee River day for me a couple of months later so that I can witness a day in the life of the river’s scientists and hands-on ...
( Category: Conservation February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-17 | Author:Simon L. Lewis

Figure 7.1 — Rising global energy consumption, 1830–2010, in exajoules. The prefix exa- means adding 18 zeros to the number shown. Current energy use is about 550 exajoules, which is ...
( Category: Human Geography February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:Niko Tinbergen [Tinbergen, Niko]

CHAPTER EIGHT DEFENCE BY COLOUR While we were busy with our studies of camouflage, we were of course, aware of the fact that many animals are not camouflaged at all, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Steven Cohen [Steven Cohen]

Step 3: Historical Analysis Prior to 1984, federal legislation did not adequately regulate USTs. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) regulates tanks that contain hazardous wastes but ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Jeff Goodell

On coral atolls like the Marshalls, there are no spring-fed rivers, no mountain lakes, no bucolic streams. Freshwater comes from the sky. The Marshallese collect water in rain buckets on ...
( Category: Coastal February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hans G. Kaper & Fred S. Roberts

Fig. 7.10Bifurcation diagram for the Australian ecosystem model (7.2.1) in 1d with weak shading feedback (small R W and R H in (7.2.3)). The diagram shows a small bistability range, ...
( Category: Computer Simulation February 21,2020 )