Environmental Science
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ronald Bailey

The Biotech Farmer and the Organic Environmentalists Should Be Friends “The farmer and the cowman should be friends,” sing the folks in the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! So ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism August 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Robert Higgs [Higgs, Robert]

CONCLUSION Private developers are making significant efforts to protect environmental resources that add to the net collective value of the community. These efforts are simply profit-maximizing behavior by developers responding ...
( Category: Social Policy August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-21 | Author:John C. Mutter

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: Poverty August 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Mike Berners-Lee

The machine itself Even before you turn it on, a new iMac has the same footprint as flying from Glasgow to Madrid and back. Apple has carried out a detailed ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Kolbert, Elizabeth]

Chapter 6 Floating Houses In February 2003, a series of ads on the theme of inundation began appearing on Dutch TV. The ads were sponsored by the Netherlands’ Ministry of ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Freinkel, Susan [Freinkel, Susan]

Roger Bernstein of the American Chemistry Council has understood that all along. He recognizes that the plastic-versus-paper fights are sideshows; the real threat to the industry is the battle against ...
( Category: Polymers & Textiles June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Reisner

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...
( Category: Environmental June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
( Category: Geography June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gaia Vince [Vince, Gaia]

7 SAVANNAHS The first vast, treeless plains on the planet were very similar to the savannahs of today, with one major exception: grass had yet to evolve, so these ecosystems ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hertsgaard, Mark [Hertsgaard, Mark]

"The Character of Our Wines Was Changing" Perhaps the leading exception to the trend is Alois Lageder, whose family has made wine in Alto Adige, the northernmost province in Italy, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Kraft, Michael E. [Kraft, Michael E.]

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Do the major environmental protection laws reviewed in this chapter need significant change? If so, what kinds of changes are most needed? 2. How good a job ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Lochbaum, David & Lyman, Edwin & Stranahan, Susan Q. [Lochbaum, David]

On the opening day of the school year on April 6, 2011, a first-grader puts on her hat during an elementary school enrollment ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the ...
( Category: Nuclear May 27,2015 )