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Something New Under the Sun by J. R. McNeill
epub |eng | 2000-05-05 | Author:J. R. McNeill

TABLE 8.1 GLOBAL FISH CATCH, 1800–1996 The aggregate figures conceal a persistent pattern. Numerous important fisheries collapsed in the twentieth century, generally the most valuable ones. The catch of the ...
( Category: Ecology May 6,2016 )
The Green and the Black by Gary Sernovitz
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
A Different Kind of Luxury by Andy Couturier
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Andy Couturier

Growing like thunderheads all summer long, the trees and plants of the woodlands thrive and cover every bit of the mountain until they finally begin to lose their momentum, and ...
( Category: Eastern April 21,2016 )
1623363853 (N) by Nathanael Johnson
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Nathanael Johnson

TURKEY VULTURE Josephine, breathless and wild-eyed, found me in the kitchen. “Papa! There’s an eagle!” “Do you mean a seagull?” “No, an e-gull!” She pointed outside. I wiped my hands ...
( Category: Ecology April 17,2016 )
The Naturalist by Darrin Lunde
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...
( Category: Mammals April 8,2016 )
The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...
( Category: State & Local April 6,2016 )
Eco-Sex by Stefanie Iris Weiss
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Stefanie Iris Weiss [Weiss, Stefanie Iris]

Music, Sweet Music A 2008 study conducted by Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventative cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, reported that blood vessel diameter improved ...
( Category: Environmental April 2,2016 )
The Rarest Bird in the World by Vernon R L Head
epub |eng | 2016-03-27 | Author:Vernon R L Head

Ian I first knew only through his many books. The day I first met the great Ian Sinclair I was nervous, and also humbled by his presence as part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 1,2016 )
David Suzuki's Green Guide by David Suzuki
epub |eng | 2008-03-30 | Author:David Suzuki [Suzuki, David]

SWITCH TO CLEANER FUELS Because of climate change, concerns about running out of oil, and rising gas prices, there is growing interest in alternative fuels. Potential substitutes for gasoline include ...
( Category: Conservation March 31,2016 )
Half-Earth by Edward O. Wilson
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

The West Indies CUBA AND HISPANIOLA. The two largest islands of the Greater Antilles contain an exuberant fauna and flora that form the bulk of the biodiversity of all the ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 23,2016 )
The Upcycle by William McDonough
epub |eng | | Author:William McDonough

Soil Not Oil Chapter 4 Food as a battery—that is what we would like you now to consider. But before we get to the full expression of that proposal, we ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 15,2016 )
In Pursuit of Butterflies by Matthew Oates
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Oates

19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The 1994 butterflying season was launched by a Small Tortoiseshell at Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's former residence west of Sevenoaks in Kent, with shimmering ...
( Category: Butterflies March 14,2016 )
The Hunt for the Golden Mole by Richard Girling
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Girling [Girling, Richard]

Uninvited guest – the lioness brought a sudden end to breakfast Another day, we rumble across the plain to the conservancy’s airstrip. It is heavily grazed and, at ground level, ...
( Category: Conservation March 6,2016 )
1408809052 (H) by Sandy Gall
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...
( Category: General March 6,2016 )

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