Conservation
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 )
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 |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, 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 | 2010-06-20 | Author:Susan Hand Shetterly

Letting Summer Go Here, in the most northeasterly part of the country, I dropped my fear of snakes. I could pick up any snake I found, and did, and if ...
( Category: State & Local June 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Kolbert, Elizabeth]

Chapter 6 Floating Houses In February 2003, a series of ads on the theme of inundation began appearing on Dutch TV. The ads were sponsored by the Netherlands’ Ministry of ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-16 | Author:Joe Bleasdale [Bleasdale, Joe]

a) Honey Spinner or Extractor b) Honey Container with a tap, on top of which is fitted a Honey Strainer fitted with a mesh that filters out the wax c) ...
( Category: Biology June 18,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Brand, Stewart [Brand, Stewart]

• I think the main element that distinguishes Europe from America and other parts of the world in regard to GE crops is the seriousness with which Europeans take what ...
( Category: Conservation June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-12 | Author:Kathleen O'Brien & Kathleen Smith

Use environmentally preferred choices for imported soil. If the soil on your site is of poor quality or just plain gone, you may have to import topsoil, preferably with the ...
( Category: Design & Construction June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Reisner

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...
( Category: Environmental June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-12 | Author:Barbara Bennett

Marieta takes a group of volunteers for a baboon walk {chapter eight} MONEY and CHANGE If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, ...
( Category: Conservation June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | 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 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-26 | Author:Lyanda Lynn Haupt [HAUPT, LYANDA LYNN]

With this is mind, I turn back to my own disgruntled helper at the nest, who, in spite of her scowl, trots dutifully behind me, handing me clothespins as I ...
( Category: Birds June 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Flint, Anthony. [Anthony., Flint,]

154 T H I S L A N D America’s world-famous big-box shopping strips are spread out and cheaply constructed. They offer millions of acres of parking lots—and unrivaled convenience ...
( Category: Regional Planning June 12,2015 )