Environment
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Kathleen Dean Moore

ETHICAL ACTION How can we protect the flourishing of all life? If it’s true that we can’t destroy our habitats without destroying our lives, as Rachel Carson said, and if ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan O'Neill [O’Neill, Dan]

Leslie Vierek presses plants at his field camp near Cape Thompson in the summer of 1959. Vierek resigned in protest from the AEC research program, charging that the agency persistently ...
( Category: Americas April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Elliott A. Norse [Norse, Elliott A.]

1. In many ways, ecosystem fragments are islands. Insularity means being surrounded by any barrier. To a species that does equally well in forests and grasslands, a forested patch in ...
( Category: Engineering April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Kurkpatrick Dorsey [Dorsey, Kurkpatrick]

DEPARTURES AND RETURNS The decision by two of the European states to leave the IWC and the subsequent departure of Japan and threatened departure of Great Britain were directly tied ...
( Category: Industries April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Jonathan White

The next morning I crank Crusader’s 150-pound anchor aboard and motor toward the snow-topped peaks of the coastal range and the narrowing channels of Sechelt Inlet. The tide is flooding ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 5,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-03 | Author:Joseph Romm

( Category: Earth Sciences April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Craig F. Bohren

12 Once in a Blue Moon Yf they saye the mone is belewe We must beleve that it is true Anonymous—16th century Charles E. Funk: A Hog on Ice Rare ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

CHAPTER 9 The True Cost of Fossil Fuels The Future of Energy Is Not Down a Hole “We pull out of the ground death. We burn death in our power ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Charles Tobias & Jane Gray Morrison

We have it on Upton Sinclair’s own authority that such a Utopia is not easily created. He had tried throughout the latter half of 1906 (with income generated by the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-04-29 | Author:Carlos Magdalena

10 Warm Waterlilies A passion for plant conservation. A long-term love affair with waterlilies. I began to wonder if there was a way of bringing them together. Was there a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:John R. Wennersten

AFRICA REFUGEES BY THE NUMBERS Africa is already home to some fourteen million people worldwide displaced by political turmoil and war, but experts say climate change is driving Africa’s displacement ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Shivik

CHAPTER 7 OF SPIKED DOUGHNUTS AND TURBO-CHARGED FLAGGING Testing Aversive Stimuli Kari Signor wasn’t much taller than the plastic bins that she bolted to a tree and filled with doughnuts. ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:William Ophuls [Ophuls, William]

6 Politeia [An individual] might wish to enjoy the rights of a citizen without wanting to fulfill the duties of a subject, an injustice whose spread would cause the ruin ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-19 | Author:Claude Henry

PUSH-PULL SYSTEMS: PROTECTING CROPS IN KENYA A push-pull system is a biology-based method of protecting crops. In the example here, this system is used to protect maize in East Africa ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Ingeborg Boyens

* * * — It is tempting to believe we can get the irritants of farming under control. An exhibit at the Epcot Center in Florida’s Disney World imagines a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )