Environment
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

The West Indies CUBA AND HISPANIOLA. The two largest islands of the Greater Antilles contain an exuberant fauna and flora that form the bulk of the biodiversity of all the ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 23,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-11-22 | Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans

The watchman thought the stranger staring at the New Inn looked familiar, but could not place him. His yellow silk shirt and lush wool coat, the sharply trimmed hair laid ...
( Category: Weather March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:William McDonough

Soil Not Oil Chapter 4 Food as a battery—that is what we would like you now to consider. But before we get to the full expression of that proposal, we ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Oates

19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The 1994 butterflying season was launched by a Small Tortoiseshell at Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's former residence west of Sevenoaks in Kent, with shimmering ...
( Category: Butterflies March 14,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Walter A. Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Walter A.]

Table 6-1 Changes in Air Quality, 1980–2008 Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality Trends, available at: http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrends.html (accessed January 25, 2010). Notes: “—” indicates trend data not available. PM ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Girling [Girling, Richard]

Uninvited guest – the lioness brought a sudden end to breakfast Another day, we rumble across the plain to the conservancy’s airstrip. It is heavily grazed and, at ground level, ...
( Category: Conservation March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...
( Category: General March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

In the morning, the nifty little refrigerator is broken, doubtless the result of Andreas’s mad cannon-ride run down off the red mountain, so Dennis and I are forced to eat ...
( Category: Wildlife March 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Monbiot [Monbiot, George]

10 The Hushings . . . the smashed faces Of the farms with the stone trickle Of their tears down the hills’ side. R. S. Thomas Reservoirs Of all the ...
( Category: Environmental February 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:David Neiwert [NEIWERT, DAVID]

CHAPTER Seven Salmon, Boats, and Oil THE SUMMER OF 2013 WAS A PECULIAR YEAR—A WORRISOME YEAR—for whale watchers in the San Juan Islands, and it all came down to salmon, ...
( Category: Marine Life February 29,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:William Souder [Souder, William]

The “safety” of a pesticide is a relative question, as the toxicity of any substance depends on the dose and the route of exposure. Calling a compound an “insecticide” identifies ...
( Category: Environmental February 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marren

9. Fire and Brimstone Butterflies and the Imagination The earliest writers about our butterflies were concerned with a matter to which few today give any thought. They wanted to know ...
( Category: Butterflies February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff

“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...
( Category: Conservation February 14,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Oslund, Karen. [Oslund, Karen.]

In 1846, another pastor and Faroese linguist, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammers- haimb, published several articles on Faroese language and literature.26 While the first few decades of the nineteenth century saw the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology February 6,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:J. F. P. Galvin [Galvin, J. F. P.]

Figure 10.1 A sequence of water-vapour satellite images from Meteosat on 13–14 March 2006. An MCC can be seen developing and decaying over a period of 18 hours at 6-hourly ...
( Category: Weather February 5,2016 )