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Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by Martinus J. G. Veltman
epub |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Martinus J. G. Veltman

Victor Hess (1883–1964, Nobel prize 1936) and Theodor Wulf (1868–1946). These physicists discovered cosmic rays. In 1910 Theodor Wulf, a Jesuit College teacher in Valkenburg, the Netherlands, made a sensitive ...
( Category: Particle Physics April 14,2020 )
Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050 by Rachid Serraj and Prabhu Pingali
epub |eng | | Author:Rachid Serraj and Prabhu Pingali

( Category: Natural Resources April 4,2020 )
Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Plants by Elisabeth Chan
epub |eng | | Author:Elisabeth Chan

Opium Poppy Papaver somniferum Botanical family: Papaveraceae The opium poppy is cultivated legally and illegally in a wide band of the semi-tropical to monsoonal tropical regions of the world from ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry April 2,2020 )
Never Out of Season by Rob Dunn
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Rob Dunn [DUNN, ROB]

Superficially, agriculture, including the farming of rubber trees, is often in conflict with wild nature. Ford cut down forests to make Fordlandia and Belterra. Similarly, the soybean fields of Brazil ...
( Category: Environmental Science April 2,2020 )
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy by
mobi |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:

For further discussion of “transferable development rights” (TDRs), see Chapter 27 in this volume. 27 A Market Approach to Land Preservation Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls As more ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 23,2020 )
Troubled Water by Seth M. Siegel
epub |eng | | Author:Seth M. Siegel

The Wildly Varied Cost of Drinking Water Since it is a universal need and a basic government service, as a point of argument, it isn’t clear why anyone is obliged ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 23,2020 )
Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill by C. Herb Ward
epub |eng | | Author:C. Herb Ward

Historically, severe freezes in the late 1800s are thought to have contributed to the decline in the green turtle fishery in Texas (Hildebrand 1982). More recently, juvenile green turtles, and ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 22,2020 )
Earth Acupuncture by Gail Reichstein Rex
epub |eng | 2016-01-28 | Author:Gail Reichstein Rex

11 Pilgrimage After the county hearings on Indian Point, I was depressed. Though I had been elated only days before, proud of the way I’d recognized Dunderberg Mountain as the ...
( Category: Native American March 22,2020 )
The Art of the Snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Kenneth Libbrecht

December 19, 2004: Burlington, Vermont It was a blustery New England day today—cold with gusty winds. Lake Champlain, still retaining some of its autumn warmth, was giving off a dense ...
( Category: Weather March 21,2020 )
Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance by Barbara Cosens & Lance Gunderson
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Cosens & Lance Gunderson

Capacity Included under the category of capacity is the ability to navigate ecological regime shifts that has been defined as adaptive capacity (Gunderson 2000) and, of equal importance, the right ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 21,2020 )
Green and Prosperous Land by Dieter Helm
epub |eng | 2019-02-03 | Author:Dieter Helm [Dieter Helm]

The new green spaces Part of this return of nature to our towns and cities is about public spaces and public initiatives. But much of the wildlife potential is in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 21,2020 )
Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice by Michael J. Lynch & Michael A. Long & Paul B. Stretesky
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Lynch & Michael A. Long & Paul B. Stretesky

White, Rob., ed. 2009. Environmental Crime: A Reader. Devon, UK: Willan. Williams, S.E., E.E. Bolitho, and S. Fox. 2003. Climate Change in Australian Tropical Rainforests: An Impending Environmental Catastrophe. Proceeding ...
( Category: Natural Resources March 20,2020 )
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile by Wossenu Abtew & Shimelis Behailu Dessu
epub |eng | | Author:Wossenu Abtew & Shimelis Behailu Dessu

Fig. 6.4a GERD RCC gravity dam showing the main dam and the left side power house under construction; b concrete faced rockfill saddle dam (2018) A 5 km long saddle ...
( Category: Hydrology March 19,2020 )
Bringing Whales Ashore by Arch Jakobina K
epub |eng | 2018-03-18 | Author:Arch, Jakobina K.

EXPLAINING WHALES: DESCRIPTIONS OF WHALERS AND THEIR PREY Judging from the number of texts describing whaling groups that still exist today, many people were just as curious about the whaling ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 19,2020 )
Native Trees of the Midwest by Sally S. Weeks
epub |eng | | Author:Sally S. Weeks

Leaves are thick and leathery and have a single bristle tip at the end. The margins are entire, which is unusual for a northern oak. They are dark green, shiny, ...
( Category: Midwest March 19,2020 )

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