Nature & Ecology
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-13 | Author:McMillan, John [McMillan, John]

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...
( Category: Free Enterprise June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Annie Leonard

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Standiford, Les [Standiford, Les]

FITS AND STARTS IN THE END, THE FUNDING SLOWDOWN ACTUALLY WORKED in Mulholland’s favor. With much of the hardest tasks behind him, any walkouts simply meant fewer men to pay, ...
( Category: Environmental June 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Robert Simmons [Simmons, Robert]

MALACHITE is a copper carbonate mineral with a monoclinic crystal system and a hardness of 3.5 to 4. Its name comes from the Greek word for its color, malache (mallow). ...
( Category: Rocks & Minerals June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn V. Platt

Reduced to fewer than 1,500 pairs outside Alaska in 1982, bald eagles have rebounded in the last decade thanks to banning of DDT and strenuous efforts by wildlife managers. The ...
( Category: State & Local June 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

"We hailed them and told them to liold off so we could get clear of the Pond. George, he yelled down to we they had orders for to finish off ...
( Category: Marine Life June 5,2015 )
epub | | 2014-07-08 | Author:Simon Watt

‘… armed with chemical weaponry …’ PART SALAMANDER, PART sausage, this frankfurter-like amphibian is known as an olm. It lives in the cavernous pits below the ground of Slovenia, Croatia, ...
( Category: Zoology June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Bill Coster

SAGUARO CACTI (Carnegia gigantea) Canon EOS 1n, 300mm lens, exposure unrecorded, Fuji Velvia film, ISO 50 Arizona, USA QUIVER TREE (Aloe dichotoma) Canon EOS 1n, 100-400mm lens, exposure unrecorded, Fuji ...
( Category: Reference June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Totman, Conrad [Totman, Conrad]

10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590–1700) Dimensions of Expansion Kyoto Revived Enriching a Common Higher Culture 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700–1850) Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications Cultural and Political Trends 12 CRISIS ...
( Category: Japan June 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-20 | Author:Donald Worster [Worster, Donald]

Muir gravitated toward idealistic people like the Strentzels, Carrs, and Bidwells who shared his disapproval of the naked pursuit of money. They also shared his passion for the outdoors, loved ...
( Category: State & Local June 3,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Stewart [Stewart, Ben; McCartney, Paul]

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: Politics & Government June 2,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Singer

We have now surveyed the main trends in animal raising in which traditional methods have been transformed into factory style animal production. Sadly, as far as the animals are concerned, ...
( Category: Animal Rights June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Seabury Blair, Jr. [Blair, Seabury]

Going Farther If time and sore muscles permit, explore downriver, or cross the Grand Creek on a footlog to an even higher footlog across Cameron Creek. All three streams are ...
( Category: Olympic Peninsula June 1,2015 )