Environment
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Tim Flannery [Flannery, Tim]

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: Earth Sciences November 29,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:James Lovelock [LOVELOCK, JAMES]

6 Can We Stop Climate Change? Recently an interviewer told me, ‘Your book The Revenge of Gaia was the scariest book I have read.’ I was surprised; I had not ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Gavin Pretor-Pinney [Gavin Pretor-Pinney]

Over Mount Youtei, Hokkaido, Japan, by Michael Davenport (Member 14217) A cap cloud, known to some as a pink-fluffy-bobble-hat cloud. CLOUD-COLLECTING POINTS: 30 points: Cap or banner cloud 20 points: ...
( Category: Environment November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Guy de la Valdene [Valdene, Guy de la]

II My neighbor, Marine Sergeant Retired B. J. Pruit, owns seven acres of land adjoining mine, on which he lives in a single-wide trailer raised on cement blocks. B.J. is ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Michelle Bamberger & Robert Oswald [Bamberger, Michelle & Oswald, Robert]

The response from FARAD was simple: “We do not answer ‘general questions.’ ” The agency referred me to a state veterinarian working in conjunction with a state diagnostic laboratory, or ...
( Category: Engineering November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Richard B. Alley [Alley, Richard B.]

Safety Tomorrow Nuclear power brings up many other safety issues, however. Nuclear reactors break down uranium-235 but build up other radioactive elements including much plutonium. In some countries, some used ...
( Category: Engineering November 28,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:John D'Agata [D'Agata, John]

WHY It’s estimated that only 40 percent of suicides are the result of chemical imbalance, while the remaining 60 percent are caused by “undetermined” factors. We know that people are ...
( Category: Anthropology November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Daley, Ben [Daley, Ben]

Figure 8.2 A large stingray captured in the Great Barrier Reef, c. 1930. Source: Negative No. 44419, Historical Photographs Collection, John Oxley Library, Brisbane In part, however, the success of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy J. Merrick

We finally met Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka herself a week later in Entebbe, Uganda.9 She had left her two young children with her husband to come talk about gorillas and public health ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 27,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Rob Mundle [Rob Mundle]

Sergeant David Key, Senior Constable Darryl Jones and Senior Constable Barry Barclay received the Valour Award for actions of extraordinary bravery. The Valour Award is the highest award for bravery ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-27 | Author:Melissa Harrison [Melissa Harrison]

Not all the old folklore was off the mark, though. Not for nothing were weather almanacks usually ascribed to shepherds or other rustics: there was a core of sound wisdom ...
( Category: Environment November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-26 | Author:Burroughs, John; [Burroughs, John]

SUNRISE IN YELLOWSTONE PARK. THE PRESIDENT ON A TRAIL At Norris’s the big room that the President and I occupied was on the ground floor, and was heated by a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Robert B. Parker [Parker, Robert B.]

Chapter35 ACCORDING TO his police folder, Goran Pappas had graduated in the top quarter of his Richdale High School class and gone on to Wickton College on a basketball scholarship. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-21 | Author:Suzanne Kelly [Kelly, Suzanne]

7 Obstacles and Other Challenges Aldo Leopold was certain that “when we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and ...
( Category: Death & Grief November 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Summer Brennan [Brennan, Summer]

PART III THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE A scientist is never certain. —RICHARD FEYNMAN When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 18,2017 )