Environmental Science
epub |eng | 2009-01-10 | Author:Devra Davis

6 THE NEW SISTERHOOD OF BREAST CANCER Stop expecting Prince Charming. We must rescue ourselves. We are the ones we've been waiting for. -BELLA ABZUG THE PHONE RANG so early ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Chris Goodall

CHAPTER 6 SUSTAINABLE FASHION Without big changes, clothing alone will stop us achieving net zero Fashion represents about 3–4 per cent of the UK’s carbon footprint, though it is not ...
( Category: Energy Policy February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Ken Kroes [Kroes, Ken]

A commotion in the town center brought Robert back to the real world. He saw a growing crowd in the town center that were all pointing and looking up. He ...
( Category: Environmental Science February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Ken Kroes [Kroes, Ken]

“I wonder who made it.” Alec said. “Who knows—there’s no reference to it anywhere. We’ve had people at the Re-Discovery Center scour through the libraries, and nothing came up. There ...
( Category: Environmental Science February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Joelle Gergis [Gergis, Joelle]

27 NATURAL VARIABILITY VERSUS HUMAN INFLUENCE Before the Industrial Revolution kicked off around 1750, the Earth’s climate was almost purely operating under natural conditions. Because the human population was still ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Benjamin R. Barber [Barber, Benjamin R.]

12 City Sovereignty and the Need for Urban Networks The Compact of Mayors launched at the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014 engaged “the world’s largest coalition of city leaders ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Stephen Nash [Nash, Stephen]

Not long ago, evincing concern about climate change and other environmental threats, the BLM convened a group of federal scientists to develop a national “Rapid Ecoregional Assessments” technique, “to more ...
( Category: Natural Resources January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-20 | Author:Jenna Butler [Jenna Butler]

2 I wake into thrumming noise, the porthole cover clanging, Maggie tangled in blankets in the top berth. Our cabin a welter of night breath and damp wool. Antigua is ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Brett Favaro

PURCHASE COST The first challenge with current EVs is the initial cost of buying them. EVs targeted at the mass market are more expensive than an “equivalent” ICE car. For ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-19 | Author:Beth Gardiner

8 Reluctant Innovators Air and the Automakers Smoke billows into the chamber, thick and hot, laden with poisons. It wafts into tiny channels, hundreds of them, a honeycomb of passageways. ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Serreze, Mark C. [Serreze, Mark C.]

EPIPHANY The new century dawned. Arctic changes became ever more obvious and now clearly included the Greenland ice sheet, ice caps, and glaciers. Even the landscape was changing, with areas ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Geoffrey Parker [Parker, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Americas, Africa and Australia1 Most of the surviving human and natural archives from the mid-seventeenth century relate to Europe and Asia. Despite the immense size of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

Oolacunta! 2004 I’M WRITING THESE words in 2003, on my way home from London where I’ve been studying some of Australia’s most interesting mammals. It’s been a sad pilgrimage, but ...
( Category: Conservation January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-02 | Author:Klaus Dodds

Populist architectures? As neo-liberalism intensifies, despite the protests following the global financial crisis and its impact on citizens around the world, so pressure continues to be exerted on governments and ...
( Category: African January 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Laurence B. Siegel

Top Down Why are some nations so rich and others so poor? So asked the economic historian David Landes in the subtitle to his elegant volume, The Wealth and Poverty ...
( Category: Economic Conditions December 30,2019 )