Environment
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Philip Connors

3 June Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Marq de Villiers

Dec. 26. Afternoon. Steve and Mary arrived at noon. They left Buzzard's Bay two days ago. Their weather service hadn't warned them. Their boat was damaged and they were exhausted, ...
( Category: Weather March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Laurence C. Smith

Contrasting Patterns of Settlement The decision of Soviet planners to relocate millions of people and force the growth of giant cities across her coldest, most remote terrain has created one ...
( Category: Weather March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | 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 March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Henry Nicholls

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Fred Pearce

We now know that two main ice sheets formed. One stretched from the British Isles across the North Sea and Scandinavia, and then west through Russia and western Siberia, and ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Tim Flannery

As of early 2008, humanity had just thirty-seven days' worth of grain supply in reserve. It's been said that the ancient Romans had a more generous buffer against famine. As ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Ian McCallum

PART TWO LOOKING AHEAD Tonight I want you to feel the blurred edge between good and bad, to say no to the urge to look away or to take sides… ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Christian Parenti

From Guerrillas to Gangs Behind bars, the political radicals of Galeria B of Cândido Mendes Prison organized themselves and then united with the general-population inmates. The common criminals saw how ...
( Category: Conservation March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hansen, James [Hansen, James]

IN 2007, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND writer Bill McKibben began bugging me, very politely, to either confirm 450 parts per million as the appropriate target level of carbon dioxide in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:James Hansen

I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Rogers, Heather [Rogers, Heather]

CHAPTER SIX The Price of Air: Carbon Offsets Gudibanda is a string of dusty villages about sixty kilometers north of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India. The landscape ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Spratt, David & Sutton, Philip [Spratt, David]

CHAPTER 17 When ‘Reasonable’ Is Not Enough In November 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world that global warming is an emergency, and ‘for emergency situations we need emergency ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-09-20 | Author:Cynthia Barnett

After the philosophers, the academics, and the Christians, there was still one crucial authority I had yet to mine for ethical truths about water. And that was YouTube. One Saturday ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )