Environmental Science
mobi |eng | 2009-09-06 | Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner

These results from an English study parallel those found by Goldfarb forty years earlier in the United States. Tizard and Hodges go beyond Goldfarb, however, in relating shifts in child ...
( Category: Environmental Science February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Sue Grafton

( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Towered cities please us then And the busy hum of men. Several years ago I visited India on a trip sponsored by Harvard’s Natural History Museum. My colleagues delighted in ...
( Category: Fauna January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Dinerstein

I wish the story could have ended here—an account of a triumphant recovery of a once common species made rare by humans but given a second chance. But Nepal soon ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Climate Central [Central, Climate]

37 Arctic Sea Ice Has Been on a Mostly Downward Spiral for the Past Thirty Years. Every summer above the Arctic Circle, the sun rises relatively high in the sky ...
( Category: Climatology January 19,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

( Category: Organic January 6,2015 )
epub | | | Author:Dale Jamieson

( Category: Environmental Policy January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Naomi Oreskes

Epilogue The former state of Florida (part of the former United States) In one of the many paradoxes of history, the inhabitants of late-twentieth-century Florida were engaged in a grand ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marie-Monique Robin [Robin, Marie-Monique]

When Manufacturers Evade Embarrassing Questions I hadn’t expected Angelika Tritscher’s advice to seek an interview with representatives from the pesticide industry. Naturally, as I was particularly interested in chlorpyrifos-methyl and, ...
( Category: Safety December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Wall, Derek [Wall, Derek]

The antagonists in the forest are disparate and unequal in almost every way. On one side is a massive paramilitary force armed with the money, the firepower, the media, and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Tokar [Tokar, Brian]

Trading Pollution The notion that new commodity markets can become a tool for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases is perhaps the most brazen expression of capitalist ideology in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Jamieson, Dale [Jamieson, Dale]

FIGURE 5.1 Decay of fossil fuel CO2 emission. Source: IPCC 2007 Science Technical. Consider a radically oversimplified story that begins with me emitting some molecules of carbon dioxide.73 As Figure ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Ian Wishart

There are thousands of volcanoes, and millions of vents, under the ocean. All of them piping emissions at temperatures of 300°C (576°F) or higher into the oceans around them. It’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Climatology November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

Epilogue The sociologist Charles B. Perrow began his research on dangerous technologies in August 1979, after the partial meltdown of the core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. ...
( Category: Nuclear November 13,2014 )