Nature & Ecology
epub, mobi | | | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...
( Category: Geography June 12,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Wendy Trusler & Carol Devine [Trusler, Wendy & Devine, Carol]

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: Winter Sports June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A just-hatched broad-winged hawk on a freshly inserted green fern frond. No greens are added during the month-long incubation, but after the young hatch, the greens are brought almost daily ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Benanav

CHAPTER 6 Before long, the caravan traveled through a pass between two burly, flat-topped buttes whose steep western walls were blanketed from top to bottom with sand. Their eastern sides ...
( Category: General June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Kyle Dickman [Dickman, Kyle]

But for many hours, the hotshots droned through the flat, windswept high desert that lies between Jemez Springs and Prescott. The crew didn’t pull into the base until after seven ...
( Category: Fire Science June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Ben Stewart [Stewart, Ben]

NINETEEN The appeals go on, the process grinds forward, always with a sense of impending, inevitable rejection. But the Kremlin does not only have the thirty in its sights. Mads ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:Michael Pollan

That day, my second on the farm, as Joel introduced me to each of his intricately layered enterprises, I began to understand just how radically different this sort of farming ...
( Category: Natural History June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:John Zerzan

The Modern Anti-World There now exists only one civilization, a single global domestication machine. Modernity's continuing efforts to disenchant and instru- mentalize the non-cultural natural world have produced a reality ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hertsgaard, Mark [Hertsgaard, Mark]

"The Character of Our Wines Was Changing" Perhaps the leading exception to the trend is Alois Lageder, whose family has made wine in Alto Adige, the northernmost province in Italy, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-12-14 | Author:Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Endangered Species June 11,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Kraft, Michael E. [Kraft, Michael E.]

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Do the major environmental protection laws reviewed in this chapter need significant change? If so, what kinds of changes are most needed? 2. How good a job ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-18 | Author:Suzanne Clothier

context of our role as guardians and caretakers, persuasion may fail. In some situations, compulsion or coercion may be justified, especially if the consequences of a failure to respond or ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson

Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
( Category: Wildlife June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-04-21 | Author:Jane Goodall

* * * otherwise, with his lower lip pushed determinedly forward, he would plod into one tent after the other looking for them. He would pull everything apart, push everything ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 11,2015 )