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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Ben Goldfarb [Goldfarb, Ben]

In many ways California’s beavers followed a fairly typical trajectory. Jedediah Smith led trapping parties to the region in the late 1820s, becoming the first white Americans to reach California ...
( Category: Mammals June 29,2020 )
The Amazon by Mark J. Plotkin
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Mark J. Plotkin

Do uncontacted and isolated tribes still exist? The concept of uncontacted or isolated rainforest tribes enthralls many people, even those who have no other particular interest in tribal cultures or ...
( Category: Native American Studies June 28,2020 )
Saving the Last Rhinos by Grant Fowlds
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Grant Fowlds

CHAPTER TWENTY: Hooves for Horns For those who love the outdoors, there is nothing more enthralling than trekking in the backcountry on horseback. It’s cemented into wilderness folklore, where horses ...
( Category: Mammals June 28,2020 )
The Cryosphere by Marshall Shawn
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Marshall, Shawn.

GLACIER DYNAMICS Glaciers flow through three different mechanisms: internal “creep” deformation, decoupled sliding at the ice–bed interface, and deformation of subglacial sediments (figure 6.3). The former is a function of ...
( Category: Weather June 27,2020 )
Unfair Game by Michael Ashcroft
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Michael Ashcroft

CHAPTER 7 AFTER SIMBA Operation Simba was an undoubted success in its own right. To have saved just one out of a possible 12,000 captive-bred lions from certain death felt ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers June 19,2020 )
Life Under Glass by Mark Nelson
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Mark Nelson

THE DESERT SHOWS A MIND OF ITS OWN Life asserts itself in surprising ways, and this is particularly true with the desert. When SBV designed it, a basic problem had ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 19,2020 )
The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table by Anja Røyne
epub |eng | 2020-06-10 | Author:Anja Røyne [Røyne, Anja]

plastic after oil Plastic is everywhere. I have plastic in my toothpaste tube, kitchen utensils, furniture, clothes, bike, car, skis, phone, and computer. Before we started using oil-based plastics, millions ...
( Category: Materials Science June 12,2020 )
The Elements We Live By by Anja Røyne
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Anja Røyne

plastic after oil Plastic is everywhere. I have plastic in my toothpaste tube, kitchen utensils, furniture, clothes, bike, car, skis, phone, and computer. Before we started using oil-based plastics, millions ...
( Category: Materials Science June 11,2020 )
Rewilding by Paul Jepson
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Paul Jepson

The first human-induced global warming This is the sub-title of another provocative paper by Chris Doughty. He and his co-authors showed that the historic extinction of mammoths in Alaska and ...
( Category: Wildlife June 9,2020 )
The Killing of Karen Silkwood by Richard Rashke
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rashke

Chapter 22 FEBRUARY 1977 Jacque Srouji was the key to Dan Sheehan’s conspiracy case. Bill Taylor hadn’t found any evidence to support the allegations of the case—that Kerr-McGee had wiretapped, ...
( Category: Ethics June 6,2020 )
Mystical Activism by John C. Robinson
epub |eng | 2020-02-27 | Author:John C. Robinson [Robinson, John C.]

What Is Activism? Activism in general may be broadly defined as efforts to promote social, political, and environmental progress to remediate the suffering of humans and other life forms. These ...
( Category: Mysticism June 5,2020 )
The Docks by Bill Sharpsteen
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bill Sharpsteen [Sharpsteen, Bill]

economy that all it takes is a small fire at a crane or a single labor dispute to ripple across the country, potentially costing the nation billions. On my way ...
( Category: Human Geography June 4,2020 )
The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning by Wendy Trusler
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Wendy Trusler

JANUARY 25, 1996 Made dinner tonight for base commander Zuniga, Doctor Rolando and Felipe the young heli pilot just in from Punta Arenas. A real home with running hot water, ...
( Category: Essays June 1,2020 )
The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, Forgotten Hero of Natural History by Richard Girling
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Richard Girling [Girling, Richard]

Frank despaired of taxidermists who failed to set up foxes correctly. ‘In nine stuffed foxes’ heads out of ten, the pupils of the eyes are made round like a dog’s, ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists May 30,2020 )
How to Shit in the Woods by Bill McKibben & Kathleen Meyer
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Bill McKibben & Kathleen Meyer

D-Can www.canyonreo.com Canyon River Equipment Outfitters PO Box 3493 Flagstaff, AZ 86003 [email protected] 800-637-4604 (toll-free) D-Can (around $150) is a new—as in, never before employed as a toilet—25 mm surplus ...
( Category: Camping May 23,2020 )

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