Environmental Science
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Walter A. Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Walter A.]

Table 6-1 Changes in Air Quality, 1980–2008 Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality Trends, available at: http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrends.html (accessed January 25, 2010). Notes: “—” indicates trend data not available. PM ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Gerald Markowitz & David Rosner

BALTIMORE AND THE LEGACY OF RACE A growing port city, Baltimore in the nineteenth century had, up until the 1870s when it was overtaken by Washington, D.C. in this respect, ...
( Category: Pathology March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Rick Smith [Smith, Rick]

The Germs Bite Back The over-triclosanitization of the planet wouldn’t be such a big deal if it weren’t for a few niggling problems: mounting evidence that, in many products, it ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Peter Doherty

14 Blue bloods and chicken bugs TRADITIONALLY, ANY NOTION OF good breeding and inheritance was synonymous with the idea of blood lines. That was before the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Shane M Brown [Brown, Shane M]

Chapter Seventeen 'What's she doing?' Megan asked suspiciously. 'We said two minutes. She's already taken five.' Chrissie's turn at using the phone to record a message had Megan on edge. ...
( Category: Environmental Science February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

On a more theoretical note, a recent study by Chris Thomas and colleagues (published in Nature in 2004) investigated the possible increase in the likely extinction rate over the next ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

The great salt crisis About 6 million years ago the gradual tectonic changes resulted in the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar. This led to the transient isolation of the ...
( Category: Climatology January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Maslin, Mark [Maslin, Mark]

19. The 2003 European heat wave killed an estimated 35,000 people 20. Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures ENSO is an oscillation between three ...
( Category: Climatology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:James Inhofe

THE APPEASERS When I think of all the backroom deals that took place during the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Graham-Lieberman days, the maxim that comes to mind is: “No man survives when ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Stefano Mancuso & Alessandra Viola [Mancuso, Stefano]

Figure 4-1. The structure of the stomata (top). By means of these small openings on their surfaces, the leaves take in the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis and give ...
( Category: Plants November 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

6. The year 1997 saw one of the most prolific acorn crops in the mid-Atlantic states in years. In Hutcheson Memorial Forest, Edmund Stiles recalled the abundance of acorns that ...
( Category: Infectious Disease November 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-26 | Author:Roy W. Spencer [Spencer, Roy W.]

Instead, I am claiming that our confidence in current climate models’ ability to predict the future is misplaced. This is partly due to the inherent complexity of the climate system. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:John C. Mutter [Mutter, John C.]

Chapter 6 Struck Dumb in New Orleans The disasters in Myanmar and Haiti are similar to those in New York and New Orleans in that each was worse than it ...
( Category: Environmental Science October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mander, Jerry

VIOLENCE Interestingly, a number of Ladakhis have linked the rise in birth rates to the advent of modern democracy. ‘Power is a question of votes’ is a current slogan, meaning ...
( Category: Economics October 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-29 | Author:David Baron

The dogs circled among the rocks. Their baying grew louder and fainter, louder and fainter, as heard from below. Matt Miller climbed toward the sound, up the jagged slope. His ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 30,2015 )