Environment
epub |eng | | Author:Totman, Conrad;

By Illegal Felling 1,826,783 By Natural Causes 2,010,957 Thus natural damage – mostly due to high winds, heavy snowfall or lightning strikes – ruined less than a third as many ...
( Category: Asia May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Michelsen Foy

10 The seas Joaquin churns up at its center, according to the latest forecast received, must by now be well over fifteen feet in height, driven by winds of seventy ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-25 | Author:Tim Flannery

CHAPTER THIRTEEN At Last, EVs In 2003, no one was doing lithium-ion batteries for consumer cars. J.B. STRAUBEL, TESLA CTO1 I AM embarrassed to say that EVs (electric vehicles) got ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Fiona Reynolds

We love oak woodlands today but even these caused controversy when they were planted in the Royal Forests to grow timber for ship-building in the eighteenth century. (Courtesy of Latitude ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Anthony

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Three days later the call came in from Vincent Otti on a satellite phone somewhere deep in the jungles of the Congo. ‘Mr Anthony, the situation is bad. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 27,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Korst, Amy [Korst, Amy]

Dental Products Dental products pose a tough problem to those of us living zero-waste lifestyles. Many parts of the dental hygiene routine create trash—the toothpaste tube and floss being the ...
( Category: Sustainable Living April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Earle, Sylvia A. [Earle, Sylvia A.]

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-23 | Author:Smith, Laurence C. [Smith, Laurence C.]

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: Earth Sciences April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Shetterly, Susan Hand [Shetterly, Susan Hand]

Letting Summer Go Here, in the most northeasterly part of the country, I dropped my fear of snakes. I could pick up any snake I found, and did, and if ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Kingsolver, Barbara [Kingsolver, Barbara]

Our turkeys were looking gorgeous after their awkward adolescent molt into adult plumage. Bourbon Reds are as handsome as it gets on the turkey runway, with chestnut-red bodies, white wings, ...
( Category: Memoirs April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Swan, Robert & Reavill, Gil [Swan, Robert & Reavill, Gil]

Icewalk Fifteen minutes of fame is short. The media glare shone brightly upon In the Footsteps of Scott, illuminated us for a brief moment, then winked out. But people remembered. ...
( Category: Engineering April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Larry Bell [Bell, Larry]

Biofuels: Field of Dreams Can we grow our way out of an energy deficit? Federal legislation with such titles as the Renewable Fuels Act (2005) and the Biofuels Security Act ...
( Category: Environment April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Ed Warner

Once again we had arrived during Zimbabwean winter. We didn’t remain in Harare at the onset, but traveled immediately down to Senuko Ranch in Clive and Lin’s Toyota loaded with ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 25,2018 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-01-31 | Author:Sarah Leah Chase [Chase, Sarah Leah]

Very Vanilla, Very Valentine ------ Raspberry and Champagne Aperitif Banana-Citrus Compote ------ Twice-Baked Cheese Soufflés Chicken Livers with Mustard Seeds Cranberry-Vanilla Muffins ------ Vanilla infused coffee Smoky Ham Hash Hash ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference April 24,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Ken Ilgunas

11. The Electrician WHITE RIVER, SOUTH DAKOTA—1,062 MILES TO GO November 27, 2012 While my legs and hips and back felt strong, and my feet were no longer plagued with ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 24,2018 )