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The Fabric of Space by Matthew Gandy
epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Matthew Gandy [Gandy, Matthew]

Figure 6.5 Rainham Marshes, Essex (2010). Photo: Matthew Gandy. The Thames estuary forms part of London’s natural flood defenses, since these low-lying areas would help to reduce the impact of ...
( Category: Environmental June 30,2020 )
Saving the Georgia Coast by Paul Bolster
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Paul Bolster

Reid Harris, high school senior, at the piano with the Septets of Glynn Academy, 1948. (Glynn Academy Yearbook, The Glynn High Tide, 1948, from the Glynn County Library) Lester Maddox ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 29,2020 )
Hydrology of the Hawaiian Islands by L. Stephen Lau
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:L. Stephen Lau

Table 6.4. Applicable Drinking Water Standards, Possible Health Effects, and Potential Sources of Groundwater Contamination Common Name Applicable Drinking Water Standardsa (in μg/l) Possible Noncarcinogenic Effects (Based on Ingestion Effects ...
( Category: Hydrology June 29,2020 )
Angels by the River by James Gustave Speth
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:James Gustave Speth

I became more of an insider as the administration continued and after I was appointed CEQ chair. Thanks in major part to the little agency’s outstanding professional staff, we helped ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 29,2020 )
Orca by Erich Hoyt
epub |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Erich Hoyt

Part Three SECOND SUMMER A KILLER WHALE DAY JULY 11. Once again, I'm heading up Johnstone Strait to killer whale country. The journey that took weeks by sail in 1973 ...
( Category: Marine Life June 29,2020 )
Whales of the Southern Ocean by Yuri Mikhalev
epub |eng | | Author:Yuri Mikhalev

Arsenyev VA, Zemsky VA (1973) Studenetskaya I.S. Marine mammals. Moscow, Food industry, p 232 Arshavsky IA (1968) Biology of the neonatal period in mammals. Biological basis of the neonatal period. ...
( Category: Marine Biology June 29,2020 )
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
mobi |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Bill McKibben

But now it’s done. There’s really nowhere plausible left to run a highway. And not only that; almost everything else is done, too. The last real National Projects were putting ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 29,2020 )
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Ben Goldfarb [Goldfarb, Ben]

In many ways California’s beavers followed a fairly typical trajectory. Jedediah Smith led trapping parties to the region in the late 1820s, becoming the first white Americans to reach California ...
( Category: Mammals June 29,2020 )
Rewilding by Micah Mortali
epub |eng | | Author:Micah Mortali

WALKING WITH AWARENESS Here is an awareness practice for walking in the woods, which I call “Don’t Step on a Twig!” The goal with this walking meditation is to avoid ...
( Category: Meditation June 29,2020 )
The Amazon by Mark J. Plotkin
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Mark J. Plotkin

Do uncontacted and isolated tribes still exist? The concept of uncontacted or isolated rainforest tribes enthralls many people, even those who have no other particular interest in tribal cultures or ...
( Category: Native American Studies June 28,2020 )
Saving the Last Rhinos by Grant Fowlds
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Grant Fowlds

CHAPTER TWENTY: Hooves for Horns For those who love the outdoors, there is nothing more enthralling than trekking in the backcountry on horseback. It’s cemented into wilderness folklore, where horses ...
( Category: Mammals June 28,2020 )
The Cryosphere by Marshall Shawn
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Marshall, Shawn.

GLACIER DYNAMICS Glaciers flow through three different mechanisms: internal “creep” deformation, decoupled sliding at the ice–bed interface, and deformation of subglacial sediments (figure 6.3). The former is a function of ...
( Category: Weather June 27,2020 )
Unfair Game by Michael Ashcroft
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Michael Ashcroft

CHAPTER 7 AFTER SIMBA Operation Simba was an undoubted success in its own right. To have saved just one out of a possible 12,000 captive-bred lions from certain death felt ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers June 19,2020 )
Life Under Glass by Mark Nelson
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Mark Nelson

THE DESERT SHOWS A MIND OF ITS OWN Life asserts itself in surprising ways, and this is particularly true with the desert. When SBV designed it, a basic problem had ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists June 19,2020 )
Where Have All the Bees Gone? by Rebecca E. Hirsch
epub |eng | 2020-01-02 | Author:Rebecca E. Hirsch [Hirsch, Rebecca E.]

Too Fat to Fly? If Nosema bombi was indeed the culprit, how exactly was it causing bumblebee declines? Jamie Strange has been trying to answer this question. He has been ...
( Category: Conservation June 16,2020 )

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