Environmental Science
epub |eng | | Author:David Lochbaum [Lochbaum, David; Lyman, Edwin; Stranahan, Susan Q.]

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: Environmental Science May 27,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Wagner, Gernot & Weitzman, Martin L. [Wagner, Gernot]

None of that yet includes the truly frightening low-probability events. There’s a huge difference between a likely sea-level rise of 0.3 to 1 meters (1 to 3 feet) by the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan

LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...
( Category: Oceanography May 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-08 | Author:Duncan J. Watts

NETWORKS, VIRUSES, AND MICROSOFT THIS RESULT WAS A PROMISING START AND DEMONSTRATED THAT for some problems at least, epidemics can be better understood by using a percolation approach than with ...
( Category: System Theory May 10,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:William J. Kelly

Chapter 12: Tweets for the Wheezy Who exactly did these Americans think they were—an imperial truth patrol, meddlers of the Zuckerberg age? In summer 2009, China’s government was seething at ...
( Category: Asian May 6,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Smil, Vaclav [Smil, Vaclav]

Ethanol has been portrayed in highly positive terms: as the world’s best choice for cutting dependence on crude oil and lowering the carbon intensity of the global economy;3 as a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Farley Mowat

Although the execution of the grey whale took place along much of the Atlantic seaboard of what is now the United States, by far the bloodiest destruction was committed in ...
( Category: Wildlife April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Jean Jouzel & Claude Lorius & Dominique Raynaud

Volcanism and Solar Activity: Natural Climatic Forcings As we get closer to the current period, our knowledge of the evolution of the climate becomes increasingly detailed, both in time and ...
( Category: Climatology April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:James Delingpole

Forgive me if I sound slightly cynical about the ‘s’ word. Problem is, I do know what it means and how it entered the language, and I’m afraid it embodies ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...
( Category: Wildlife March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Watts [Watts, Jonathan]

It was not far from heaven to hell in Xinjiang. At the foot of the Tian Mountains was the Turpan Depression, the lowest and hottest place in China. In classical ...
( Category: Asian March 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-03 | Author:Andrew Nikiforuk

9. Peak Science “[The blame for the future plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social ...
( Category: Conservation March 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Howard Lee [Lee, Howard]

Dating humans Carbon-dating with 14C In the most recent past, the time of modern humans, dates are measured using isotopes with relatively short half-lives, like carbon-14 (14C). Carbon dating is ...
( Category: Climatology March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-28 | Author:Terry L. Anderson [Anderson, Terry L.]

The Skyline pilot effort, negotiated between a willing seller and buyer, can demonstrate the energy, environmental, and economic benefits associated with transfers from out-of-stream to instream flows in the Columbia ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 3,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Smil, Vaclav [Smil, Vaclav]

Twenty Millennia of Phytomass Change Given the lasting uncertainties in quantifying the aboveground phytomass in today’s ecosystems (leaving aside even greater errors in estimating the belowground biomass and its productivity), ...
( Category: Environmental February 13,2015 )