Environmental Science
epub |eng | | Author:Drew Harvell

Figure 10. Mortality of the ochre star in Bamfield, British Columbia. Photo by Drew Harvell. My brain was in overdrive trying to detect every clue to the cause and any ...
( Category: Ecology March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:David Wallace-Wells;

* * * — If we do succeed, and pull up short of two or even three degrees, the bigger bill will come due not in the name of liability ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Albert Bates

Table 11.1. Carbon Math: Beach Seaweed One challenge with harvesting seagrass, beach-cast seaweeds, or kelp for biochar is that it’s likely to have a relatively higher salt content. It may ...
( Category: Environmental February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:Linda Williams

Agriculture Types of Agriculture The three main grain crops eaten by humans are wheat, rice, and maize (called corn in the United States). Combined, 1,900 million metric tons are grown ...
( Category: Advanced Placement April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Linda D. Williams

Types of Pesticides Historically, humans have controlled pests with smoke, salt, sand, and insect-repelling plants. The ancient Sumerians used sulfur to control insects and mites 5,000 years ago. Greeks and ...
( Category: Advanced Placement April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Princeton Review

ECONOMICS AND RESOURCE UTILIZATION The study of how people use limited resources to satisfy their wants and needs is called economics. As you can imagine, some of those needs are ...
( Category: Advanced Placement April 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Gary S. Thorpe

Figure 9.2 Radon risk in the United States CASE STUDIES READING PRONG: A particularly uranium-rich geological formation, called the Reading Prong (or Highlands area), stretches from Pennsylvania through northwestern New ...
( Category: Advanced Placement April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi Cullen

Perhaps because of what Gearheard, Pearce, and others have seen personally, many scientists believe that cultural preservation, along with housing and infrastructure improvements, is an important way to help the ...
( Category: Weather June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Spencer Wells [Wells, Spencer]

FIGURE 23: SCENE FROM THE TUCKERS FACTORY IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 1910. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL TUCKER.) In the final chapter of this book I will discuss how this alienation has ...
( Category: Human Geography June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-05-02 | Author:Jerry Silver [Silver, Jerry]

Figure 6-9 Comparison of greenhouse gas emissions by emerging versus developed countries. (Source: EPA.) Table 6-4 Carbon Dioxide Contributions of Various Counties Overall and for the Year 2005 Source: Dangerous ...
( Category: Climatology June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Mark Bittman [Bittman, Mark]

2 Cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes break down and the mixture comes together and thickens a bit, 10 to 15 minutes. For a thinner sauce, add some or all ...
( Category: Weight Loss June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Bloomberg [Bloomberg, Michael]

CARL POPE 10 OIL’S TWILIGHT Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have—and it’s cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 7,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Eric R. Pianka

Figure 13. 1. Niche relationships among members of competitive communities are usually modeled with bell-shaped utilization curves along a resource spectrum such as height above ground or prey size. Among ...
( Category: Organic March 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:John Michael Greer

6 THE SUICIDE OF SCIENCE EVERY HUMAN SOCIETY LIKES TO THINK THAT ITS CORE CULtural and intellectual projects, whatever those happen to be, are the be-all and end-all of human ...
( Category: Human Geography March 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Egan

THE DNA EVIDENCE THAT ASIAN CARP ARE SWIMMING IN LAKE Michigan has mounted in recent years. It turned up some 200 miles north of Chicago in the waters of Wisconsin’s ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2017 )