Environment
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Fred Guterl

As an undergraduate at Swarthmore, David Baltimore changed his major from biology to chemistry in part because he was less interested in birds and ecosystems than in what was going ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Reitz [Reitz, Charles]

Marx also quite famously connected the human labor process with human insight into forms of the ideal, even an aesthetic ideal: A spider conducts operations which resemble those of the ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-19 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Interlude: The Antarctic Convergence Jim Kennett, a central figure in the early history of paleoceanography, was the same age as Joseph Hooker when he first saw Antarctica. And, like Hooker, ...
( Category: Climatology March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:V. Sivasubramanian

FIGURE 8.6 Stability of immobilized cells. 8.8 CONCLUSION An anaerobic treatment system with immobilized cells is a promising alternative for pharmaceutical industrial wastewater treatment, and it could be cost effective ...
( Category: Engineering March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:David Archer

Having corrected the MAT data, we can now estimate the SST corrections required to ensure overall compatibility between the land, MAT and SST data by comparing the corrected MAT and ...
( Category: Weather March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Caldicott [Caldicott, Helen]

MICHAEL T. KLARE Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at the Five Colleges, Inc.: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and ...
( Category: Conservation March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-20 | Author:David Toomey

It was mid-December 1944, exactly a week before Christmas. Eighty-six vessels of U.S. Navy Task Force 38 were in the Philippine Sea, 300 miles east of Luzon. There were eight ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Wayne C. Weeks [Weeks, Wayne C.]

10.COSMIC RAYS Henrik Svensmark proposed that the Sun’s fluctuating magnetic field caused a change in the flux of incoming cosmic rays from the outer space. The Sun’s magnetic field which ...
( Category: Conservation March 25,2020 )
epub |ita | 0101-01-01 | Author:Masanobu Fukuoka [Fukuoka, Masanobu]

51 As for the consumer, the common belief has been that natural food should be expensive. If it is not expensive, people suspect that it is not natural food. One ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin McCloud

Sliding glass doors allow the house to spill out onto an outdoor deck. (© Chris Gascoigne/VIEW) The owners’ Airstream caravan provides a gleaming antidote to the house’s matt black cladding. ...
( Category: Design & Construction March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William E. Marks

Global Warming The buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere from human-made emissions is now considered one of the major contributors to global warming. In a study published in the ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-24 | Author:Daniel Butler

( Category: Trees March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-10 | Author:Christopher J. Preston [Preston, Christopher]

• • • The nineteenth-century English political philosopher John Stuart Mill once suggested two different ways of thinking about the word nature. One is to suppose that the term designates ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-19 | Author:David A. Perry & Ram Oren & Stephen C. Hart [Perry, David A. & Oren, Ram & Hart, Stephen C.]

1. Nutrients contained in dust and gases that are present on leaf surfaces are soluble and become part of the throughfall. A heterogeneous mixture of gases and aerosols are either ...
( Category: Ecology March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Michael Buckley [Buckley, Michael]

LHASA, SEPTEMBER 2010: ACROSS FROM THE YAK HOTEL AT THE SHANGRI-LA Restaurant, a nightly dinner-dance show for Chinese tourists is staged. Here, nomads have been reduced to a curiosity. Performers ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )