Environment
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Richard Mabey [Mabey, Richard]

The lakes and thickets just south of Uxbridge resembled this scene re-imagined by Hieronymus Bosch. My own rambles (invigorating, I concede, but far from health-giving) took me across derelict Victorian ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Kristin Eggerling

Five The Power of Words While Sigurd was in high school, the Ashland Chamber of Commerce sponsored an essay contest about the chamber’s values. Sig didn’t care about the organization ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 14,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Gwynne Dyer [Dyer, Gwynne]

It would have been much more effective in reducing the developing-country emissions because of the Clean Development Mechanism that was part of it … There would have been a lot ...
( Category: Earth Sciences December 11,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Finlayson, Clive [Finlayson, Clive]

8 One Small Step for Man . . . THE kinds of rapid environmental changes that Neanderthals had been experiencing across Eurasia, on either side of the mid-latitude mountainous belt, ...
( Category: Evolution December 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Martin Lee Mueller

Since its beginnings, modernity has advocated a kind of “narrative hegemony,” the expectation that one “right” story would emerge by virtue of technological and moral progress. The modern story was ...
( Category: Anthropology December 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-23 | Author:Shelly Miller [Miller, Shelly]

16 The Murders of Madison County T minus two months and counting. February made us shiver. It was another dismal February Friday when my daughter dressed for school. “Can you ...
( Category: Environment December 5,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-12-03 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

Seven White Butterflies Seven white butterflies delicate in a hurry look how they bang the pages of their wings as they fly to the fields of mustard yellow and orange ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:W. John Kress

HUMAN HEALTH IN THE ANTHROPOCENE GEORGE E. LUBER As humans entered the Holocene epoch, marked by the end of the last major glacial advance, or ice age, some 11,700 years ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 3,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Ramez Naam [Naam, Ramez]

Increasing our governmental investments in R&D, introducing competition and incentives into schooling, and funneling more college students into science and engineering are all key steps to boosting our long-term rate ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:David S. Abraham

IX Sustainable Use The Environmental Calculus of the Rare Metal Age Zhang Yang’e, a Chinese farmer from the remote village of Dingnan in Jiangxi Province, lives some ten meters from ...
( Category: Industries December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Mark R. Tercek & Jonathan S. Adams [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: Nature & Ecology December 2,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Ryan, Eric & Lowry, Adam [Lowry, Adam]

ERROR AUTOPSY: WIPEOUT The idea of launching wipes never sat well with us. Like its cousin, the paper towel, the wipe is a convenient form of everyday domestic life, but ...
( Category: Home Improvement & Design December 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-03 | Author:Caroline Taggart

As a third option, some tickets are available online the day before play. Sign up on the Wimbledon website to receive email updates for the best chance of obtaining these. ...
( Category: Entertaining & Holidays December 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Cynthia Barnett [Barnett, Cynthia]

* * * * The quote was a flourish by the building’s architect, William Mitchell Kendall, who read Greek for pleasure. He found it in Herodotus’s book of the Persian ...
( Category: Earth Sciences November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Markus Imhoof & Claus-Peter Lieckfeld [Imhoof, Markus & Lieckfeld, Claus-Peter]

In November and December, the bees settle in for winter. The bees form a cluster in the hive, and from time to time the bees on the outside move toward ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences November 29,2017 )