Environment
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Goodall, Jane / Maynard, Thane / Hudson, Gail [Goodall, Jane / Maynard, Thane / Hudson, Gail]

Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Vaillant, John [Vaillant, John]

Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Bellairs, John [Bellairs, John]

"Lucky I brought some gloves," said Miss Eells in a tight, strained voice. She unzipped a side pocket of her jacket and pulled out two dirt-caked gardening gloves. She put ...
( Category: Environment November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Christopher Dewdney

The Invention of the Barometer In 1608, Galileo Galilei heard about a spectacle maker in Holland who had fashioned an arrangement of lenses with the remarkable power of making distant ...
( Category: Environment November 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Brooke Bessesen

Social friction, which had been coiling like a viper, struck with ferocity on the evening of March 8, 2017. A La Voz article wrote (translated), “Last night virtually all the ...
( Category: Marine Life October 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret A. Palmer, Joy B. Zedler & Donald A. Falk

Morzaria-Luna, H. N., and J. B. Zedler. 2014. “Competitive Interactions Between Two Salt Marsh Halophytes Across Stress Gradients.” Wetlands 34:31–42.CrossRef Mueller-Dombois, D., and H. Ellenberg. 1974. Aims and Methods of ...
( Category: Biological Sciences October 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

These paragraphs describe Yenangyaung as it was in the latter years of nineteenth century. But the history of Burma’s oil industry goes back much further, possibly even a millennium or ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-12 | Author:Eliza Griswold

20 | POLICING THE STATE While Kendra clashed with opposing lawyers, John found himself engaged in a fresh battle against the state. In 2011, Pennsylvania’s new Republican governor, Tom Corbett, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-24 | Author:S. L. Scott [Scott, S. L.]

23 Rivers Seven hours earlier . . . Tossing the trash from the breakfast tacos I just devoured, a knock drags my ass off the couch. When I answer the ...
( Category: Environment October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Doug Fine [Fine, Doug]

I thought my act was working, though I was not having fun. And this trapeze performance was just for the solar panel array to power the dang pump. I hadn’t ...
( Category: Sustainable Living October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Mersereau

120 KNOW YOUR LIGHTNING No two bolts of lightning are the same. Sometimes, lightning won’t even be a bolt at all. There are a variety of different types of lightning ...
( Category: Survival & Emergency Preparedness October 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arup K. Sarma, Vijay P. Singh, Rajib K. Bhattacharjya & Suresh A. Kartha

Strain name Morphology A Small, more or less round, yellowish gray B Small, curve, gray C Small, curve, gray D Very small, white, round E Small, round, gray F Large, ...
( Category: Sociology October 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:M.R. Balks & D. Zabowski

Human activity is concentrated on the coastal margins of Antarctica. Most access is by ship; thus, ice-free areas near the coast are preferred for buildings. The first huts were built ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:LaDuke, Winona

Monocultures of the Mind and of the Land Jubilant as those celebrations might have been, 200 years later it is perhaps possible that another change will come and justice may ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark James Owens [Mark]

12. The Commerce of Understanding Mark "Time" has ceased, "Space" has vanished. We now live in a global village. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN "THEY SAY YOU NEVER got a permit to run ...
( Category: Biological Sciences October 14,2018 )