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Anticipating Future Environments by Shana Lee Hirsch
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Shana Lee Hirsch

EXPERIMENTATION AND EMERGENCE There are people like Woodruff throughout the Columbia River Basin: people who are experimenting with innovative ways to restore the ecosystem processes that were (sometimes completely) lost ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 1,2020 )
Out of the Woods by Julia Corbett
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Julia Corbett

In my twenties and thirties I moved a lot, and the landlords of all those rentals were amazed at the effort I spent in the battered yards, planting gardens and ...
( Category: Natural History July 31,2020 )
A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard () by John Hanson Mitchell
epub |eng | | Author:John Hanson Mitchell

Garden Spider If you touch one of the webs lightly, the spider may shake the entire structure, though why she does this is not known. If by chance you crash ...
( Category: Natural History July 25,2020 )
A Natural History of Color by Rob Desalle
epub |eng | 2020-07-06 | Author:Rob Desalle [Desalle, Rob]

Mimicry It stands to reason that since natural selection doesn’t have a conscience, any and all strategies for survival will eventually get a chance. Cheating has become one of the ...
( Category: Ophthalmology July 22,2020 )
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium by Juan Pimentel
azw3, pdf |eng | 2017-01-08 | Author:Juan Pimentel [Pimentel, Juan]

Figure 27. Juan Bautista Bru and Manuel Navarro, plate number 2, published in José Garriga, Descripción del esqueleto de un cuadrúpedo … (1796). Figure 28. Georges Cuvier, Megatherium americanum, plate ...
( Category: Mammals July 20,2020 )
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 1993-07-15 | Author:Charles Darwin

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category: Biology July 16,2020 )
American Serengeti by Dan Flores
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Dan Flores [Dan Flores]

A DREAM OF BISON 6 In the fall of 1886, William T. Hornaday, taxidermist at the National Museum in Washington, stepped off a train in Miles City, Montana, to undertake ...
( Category: Bears July 11,2020 )
A Natural History of Color by Rob DeSalle
epub |eng | 2020-07-06 | Author:Rob DeSalle

Mimicry It stands to reason that since natural selection doesn’t have a conscience, any and all strategies for survival will eventually get a chance. Cheating has become one of the ...
( Category: Ophthalmology July 11,2020 )
Fire by Andrew C. Scott
epub |eng | 2020-05-06 | Author:Andrew C. Scott [Scott, Andrew C.]

Landscape fires As the cost of suppressing landscape fire has spiralled over the past decade there are a number of issues we need to consider in regard to whether or ...
( Category: Environmental Science July 7,2020 )
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:John McWhorter [McWhorter, John]

Creoles also suggest a “default” setting in how they indicate tense. The African languages that slaves brought to the Caribbean had various ways of expressing past tense: some with a ...
( Category: Natural History July 7,2020 )
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman
epub |eng | 2001-08-14 | Author:Andrew Spielman [Spielman, Andrew]

Life cycle of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito Soft and white when laid, the eggs of Aedes aegypti quickly become as dark and hard as a caraway seed. In ...
( Category: Entomology July 5,2020 )
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth by Grant Benjamin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Grant, Benjamin [Grant, Benjamin]

PORT OF SINGAPORE 1.237656°, 103.806422° Cargo ships and tankers—some weighing up to 300,000 tons—wait outside the entry to the Port of Singapore. The facility is the world’s second-busiest port in ...
( Category: Natural History July 4,2020 )
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Gary Snyder

To return to my own situation: the land my family and I live on in the Sierra Nevada of California is “barely good” from an economic standpoint. With soil amendments, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 2,2020 )
Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters by Martin J. S. Rudwick
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Martin J. S. Rudwick [Rudwick, Martin J. S.]

MEN AMONG THE MAMMOTHS A Pleistocene Ice Age posed new questions for other puzzles about the relatively recent history of the Earth. How were these major climatic changes related to ...
( Category: Geology July 2,2020 )
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 )

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