Environment
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea Another once-abundant bird, the Giant Ibis, of which there are only about 230 mature individuals remaining, is found in northern Cambodia, southern Laos, and there has ...
( Category: Birds February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

On a more theoretical note, a recent study by Chris Thomas and colleagues (published in Nature in 2004) investigated the possible increase in the likely extinction rate over the next ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

The great salt crisis About 6 million years ago the gradual tectonic changes resulted in the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar. This led to the transient isolation of the ...
( Category: Climatology January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Haynes, Alison

MOLD ATTACK Improving ventilation is the long-term solution, either by opening windows immediately after a steamy bath or shower, installing extractor fans, or fitting the room with wall vents so ...
( Category: Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating December 30,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Maslin, Mark [Maslin, Mark]

19. The 2003 European heat wave killed an estimated 35,000 people 20. Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures ENSO is an oscillation between three ...
( Category: Climatology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:James Inhofe

THE APPEASERS When I think of all the backroom deals that took place during the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Graham-Lieberman days, the maxim that comes to mind is: “No man survives when ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sandra Millers Younger

Retirees Bob and Barbara Daly had also been forced back by the flames. Awakened by the sound of the wind rearranging their patio furniture, Bob Daly had immediately roused his ...
( Category: State & Local November 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

6. The year 1997 saw one of the most prolific acorn crops in the mid-Atlantic states in years. In Hutcheson Memorial Forest, Edmund Stiles recalled the abundance of acorns that ...
( Category: Infectious Disease November 3,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harry W. Greene

Philippine Negritos with freshly killed reticulated python, twenty-three feet long and twenty-six inches in circumference, at the headwaters of the Koso River in the Sierra Madre, Aurora Province, Luzon, June ...
( Category: Ichthyology October 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Jon Mooallem

PART THREE BIRDS 11. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS By the late 1940s, there were only about thirty whooping cranes left on Earth, and, for better or worse, America was about to level ...
( Category: Wildlife October 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-26 | Author:Roy W. Spencer [Spencer, Roy W.]

Instead, I am claiming that our confidence in current climate models’ ability to predict the future is misplaced. This is partly due to the inherent complexity of the climate system. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Jackson Landers

I LEFT MISSOURI WITH A COOLER FULL OF CARP and my head teeming with thoughts about entire rivers with hundreds of tons of a highly edible fish per mile and ...
( Category: Hunting October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Sharon Lovejoy [Lovejoy, Sharon]

Edible flowers add color, taste, and zing to your salads. Croutons: No Squares Allowed Tiny cookie cutters are perfect for making a child’s version of croutons. Use a dense day-old ...
( Category: Nature Crafts October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Michael J. Tougias

Bushy-browed WOCB newsman Ed Semprini had survived the grueling drive down snow-covered Route 28. The bad weather had not let up once during the twenty-one-mile trek from Hyannis to Chatham. ...
( Category: State & Local October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Elizabeth Grossman

“Why weren’t we asking the right questions? Why didn’t we have the knowledge of why something is toxic?” Paul Anastas asks rhetorically when I speak to him in his office ...
( Category: Environmental September 21,2015 )