Nature & Ecology
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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Old Farmer’s Almanac

* * * SOLE MATES THEN . . . In the 2nd century A.D., Greek writer and philosopher Plutarch related in his biographical Lives the story of a Roman who, ...
( Category: Almanacs & Yearbooks September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Jared Farmer

TO SMUDGE OR NOT TO SMUDGE Frost was the dirty little secret of Southland citriculture. No self-respecting booster of the region would outright admit to freezing weather. Every realtor and ...
( Category: Trees September 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Kelleher, Colm A.;Knapp, George [Kelleher, Colm A.;Knapp, George]

However, it simply isn’t honest to discard pieces of information that might not fit a preconceived idea of “the truth.” Tony Healy, who has devoted twenty-five years of his life ...
( Category: Unexplained Mysteries September 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-29 | Author:David Baron

The dogs circled among the rocks. Their baying grew louder and fainter, louder and fainter, as heard from below. Matt Miller climbed toward the sound, up the jagged slope. His ...
( Category: Environmental Science August 30,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Quammen

PROVIDE, PROVIDE The Gaia Hypothesis and Global Evolution An Englishman named J. E. Lovelock believes that he may have discovered the largest of all living creatures. This thing he has ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Helen Caldicott [Caldicott, Helen]

Although China is now the number one consumer of fertilizer, using more than 40 million tons in 2004, the average American uses an estimated 530,000 gallons (about 2 million liters) ...
( Category: Conservation August 22,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

WORLDWIDE, FIFTEEN MILLION PEOPLE FISH COMMERCIALLY. THE MOST dangerous occupation, fishing kills workers at rates eighteen to thirty times higher than national averages of on-the-job deaths. The fish they land ...
( Category: Oceans & Seas August 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Huber [Huber, Peter]

( Category: Economics August 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:John L. Riley [Riley, John L.]

PART THREE NATURE’S PROSPECT CHAPTER NINE Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited The twentieth century unpacked some of history’s most extraordinary blessings and curses, and Nature’s prospects in Great ...
( Category: Conservation July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Nathaneal Johnson [Johnson, Nathaneal]

( Category: Ecology July 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-13 | Author:Unknown

Chapter Seven Leo I knocked on her door and waited for her to answer. Keeping my distance from her was excruciating, but I’d wanted to give her the chance to ...
( Category: Graphic Design July 28,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Heacox, Kim

MUIR WAS TIRED and unwell and unable to fully rest at home, busy with obligations in his scribble den. The grippe was back. The bronchial cough, too. His second Atlantic ...
( Category: State & Local July 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Wilson, Edward O. [Wilson, Edward O.]

When observation and theory collide, scientists turn to carefully designed experiments for resolution. Their motivation is especially high in the case of biological systems, which are typically far too complex ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Krause, Bernie

Musical invention reflects modern views of ourselves and our increasing dissociation from the wild. Paralleling trends in science and the visual arts, composers, too, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, began ...
( Category: Animals July 19,2015 )