Environment
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Jedediah Purdy [Purdy, Jedediah]

The Roots of Conservation Building stronger states and shaping governance through science were great themes of the later nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic. American reformers owed much ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Nikiforuk, Andrew [Nikiforuk, Andrew]

9. Peak Science “[The blame for the future plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social ...
( Category: Economic Conditions May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Fraser

Kenya and “the Government’s Cattle” Kenya is divided by the Great Rift Valley, a wide plain formed thirty million years ago when tectonic plates collided and then heaved apart. To ...
( Category: Environmental May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Once again, a professional philosopher refuses to engage his heart at the same time as his head, and leaves behind his imaginative faculty, the very thing that is supposed to ...
( Category: Food Science May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:The Worldwatch Institute

NOAA Marine debris on a beach in Kanapou Bay, Hawaii. Once released into the ocean, plastic debris is transported widely by tides and currents, and ingested by mammals, fish, birds, ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Marteel-Parrish, Anne E.; Abraham, Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM

Aspartame was discovered by accident by Jim Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle in 1965. Jim Schlatter was working on drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers when he spilled ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub | | 2015-10-12 | Author:Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet, Michael Westlake

This bipolar view of the world, already questionable in 1992, is totally out of step with contemporary reality, in which emerging economies have shifted the center of gravity of the ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Brian Sussman

AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE Since 1960, we’ve elected federal leaders who have allowed us to be held hostage by a small cabal callous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Wintner

The afterdeck was enclosed with nylon and transparent vinyl panels to fend off evening breezes. A banquet table set for nine transformed the 9 × 15 space into a perfect ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Foster

4 FIRE Fox The Tube is a syringe, pushing a solution of bodies and electric air into the city’s limbs. When you ooze out of Bethnal Green station, there’s a ...
( Category: Wildlife April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...
( Category: Mammals April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...
( Category: State & Local April 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Stefanie Iris Weiss [Weiss, Stefanie Iris]

Music, Sweet Music A 2008 study conducted by Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, reported that blood vessel diameter improved ...
( Category: Environmental April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-27 | Author:Vernon R L Head

Ian I first knew only through his many books. The day I first met the great Ian Sinclair I was nervous, and also humbled by his presence as part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-30 | Author:David Suzuki [Suzuki, David]

SWITCH TO CLEANER FUELS Because of climate change, concerns about running out of oil, and rising gas prices, there is growing interest in alternative fuels. Potential substitutes for gasoline include ...
( Category: Conservation March 31,2016 )