Environment
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

Chapter 11 Losing the Parts Imagine trying to understand the ecology of tropical rainforests by studying environmental changes and interactions among the surviving plants and animals on a vast cattle ...
( Category: Natural History March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-15 | Author:Christopher Booker

HOW THE ‘HOCKEY TEAM’ SAVED THE ‘HOCKEY STICK’ When, at the end of April 2007, the IPCC finally released online the full version of its scientific report ‘The basis of ...
( Category: Climatology March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Tercek, Mark R. & Adams, Jonathan S. [Tercek, Mark R.]

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS ARE MORE DYNAMIC AND INTERCONNECTED than grasslands, forests, or deserts. And compared to land-based resources, much more of the ocean is considered common property, open to all comers, ...
( Category: Conservation March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Luís Borda-de-Água, Rafael Barrientos, Pedro Beja & Henrique Miguel Pereira

Keywords Animal collision mortalityGrain spillageRailroadRelative riskTransportation corridor Introduction Like roads, railroads affect wildlife through direct mortality, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation (van der Grift 1999; Forman et al. 2003; Davenport ...
( Category: Human Geography March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Meera Subramanian

The Indian scientific community collaborated with international colleagues through the newly formed Asian Vulture Crisis Project to identify the cause of the crash. Scientists initially speculated that an infectious disease ...
( Category: Natural History March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-26 | Author:Lucy Siegle [Siegle, Lucy]

SINGLE-USE PLASTICS Chances are, you’re pretty alarmed by the number of disposables you’ve collected and recorded in your plastic diary. There’s certainly a lot of heat at the moment around ...
( Category: Conservation February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

A Poverty Eradication Agenda and Budget As indicated earlier, eradicating poverty involves much more than international aid programs. It also includes the debt relief that the poorest countries need in ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 29,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Tom Brown, Jr. & Randy Walker Jr.

* * * — If you live in a house, look at the house from the point of view of rain runoff. Where does the water go? Most people don’t ...
( Category: Conservation February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Old Farmer's Almanac

VEGETABLES Plant peas when forsythias bloom. Plant potatoes when the first dandelion blooms. Plant beets, carrots, cole crops (broccoli, brussels sprouts, collards), lettuce, and spinach when lilacs are in first ...
( Category: Almanacs February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Louise Bradford

Reducing Your Direct Water Use Most of the things on this checklist can be taken up immediately by the vast majority of people and will make an instant reduction to ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Huddart & Tim Stott

9.6 Horses As Agents of Weed Spreading Manure acts as a favourable growing site and seems an ideal substrate for seedling germination in a controlled laboratory setting (e.g. Weaver and ...
( Category: Natural Resources February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Imre Szeman & Dominic Boyer

Biopolitics in the Anthropocene The politics of energy transition and climate change mitigation, as they become articulated in their local and global dimensions, are, to put it euphemistically, a challenge. ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-09-14 | Author:Paul Wheaton & Shawn Klassen-Koop

Let’s Do the Math The title of this chapter is “Double the Food with One Tenth of the Effort.” Is it truly possible? Well, how much time does it take ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Morriss, Andrew, Desroches, Pierre, Meiners, Roger

9. Agricultural Revolutions and Agency Wars: How the 1950s Laid the Groundwork for Silent Spring Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss Silent Spring has acquired iconic status in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Monte Reel

The court understands that, as a result, the Indian will be protected and FUNAI will have time to approach him, identify his language and tribe, learn the whereabouts of his ...
( Category: Conservation February 28,2020 )