Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Hoare, Philip [Hoare, Philip]

Up on the rocky headland that overlooks this spectacle, I sit alongside Marcelo on a wooden stool in his concrete cell. Silently, we watch the waves unroll. A few moments ...
( Category: Marine Life November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 1980-11-14 | Author:A. Whipple [Whipple, A.]

A decorative plaque displays the signals the whaleship Northern Light used to pass information to her whaleboats. The first nine signals and the last were made by flying flogs at ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture November 5,2014 )
epub, pdf |deu | 2012-10-11 | Author:Ford, Catt [Ford, Catt]

Der Sonntag verlief ruhig für beide Männer. Nick schlief die meiste Zeit über und Damian schlich sich immer wieder heimlich zu seiner Tür, um ihn dabei zu beobachten, ohne dabei ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:David Bollier [Bollier, David]

The Inalienable Rights of Commoners Property rights do not arise naturally, as the great Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley noted in 1659. They are the result of conquest: “For the power ...
( Category: Social Philosophy November 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Renard, Jules; Bonnard, Pierre

THE TOAD BORN OUT OF A STONE, he’s living under a stone. He’s building a tomb there. I often visit him, and each time I lift the stone up, I’m ...
( Category: French October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen & Jane Goodall [Matthiessen, Peter]

Until recent years, when the elephant herds have become concentrated in game reserves and parks, it has been difficult to study elephants, since one could not stay close enough to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nick Jans

9 The Miracle Wolf March 2006 The black wolf stood at the lake’s west edge at twilight, his form mirrored in the water’s surface as he scanned the Dredge Lakes ...
( Category: Dogs & Wolves October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:E. G. Vallianatos

The IBT scandal merely revealed what my EPA colleague David Smithson would call “garbage science.” IBT was not a unique case of scientific fraud––it was emblematic of a dark and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Beder

Television: Promoting Consumerism Although media outlets avoid controversial material, they do not want to bore their audiences. This has brought about an increase in non-news content, or ‘fluff ’, aimed ...
( Category: Environmental October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Climatology October 28,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter H. Gleick

A New Alchemy If you can come up with two or more pseudoscientific, hyphenated words—some of them adjectives and one of them “water”—you too can market bottled water as a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

* * * * The guts of the cod. When the Hanns returned to the Pond on Wednesday, they noted changes in the whale’s behaviour and appearance. “She waren’t blowing ...
( Category: Mammals October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:David Naguib Pellow [Pellow, David Naguib]

Policy and Legislation Directed at “Ecoterrorists” in Historical Perspective Legislation such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) of 2006 declared it “terrorism” to harm the profits of an industry ...
( Category: Radicalism October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Bill McKibben

5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN Pandemonium! We were in one of Kirk’s big beeyards on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, breaking down big hives into small colonies that would ...
( Category: Social Activists October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Toads that have pockets, and other weird beasts The creeks ran all round the village of Santa Maria, and so to all intents and purposes we were living on an ...
( Category: Fauna October 16,2014 )