Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Charles C. Mann [Mann, Charles C.]

For many politicians, NASA researcher James Hansen’s 1988 Senate testimony that a minute additional percentage of carbon dioxide in the air was “changing our climate now” was their first, startling ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:HRH The Prince of Wales

Acid oceans As a further consequence of carbon dioxide pollution the oceans are rapidly becoming more acidic. Comparable rates of ocean acidification have not been seen for many millions of ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 21,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Rock, Amy & Malhoski, Ryan [Rock, Amy]

Practice on your own Add two more maps to your project—one for Alaska, and another one for Hawaii; then, add all three maps to a layout. Summary In this chapter, ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:Richard Heinberg [Heinberg, Richard]

10 THE ANTHROPOCENE: IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT US TIME TO CELEBRATE! WOO-HOO! IT’S OFFICIAL: WE HUMANS have started a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Douglas Bader [Bader, Douglas]

Laddie Lucas, another distinguished fighter pilot, has said: ‘As I see it, every pilot in the R.A.F. owed something to what went on in World War I. These tactics were ...
( Category: Military August 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Don Brown

( Category: Biographies August 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brett Favaro

PURCHASE COST The first challenge with current EVs is the initial cost of buying them. EVs targeted at the mass market are more expensive than an “equivalent” ICE car. For ...
( Category: Environment August 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Ellen Gunter [Gunter, Ellen]

The Dangers of Lost Seed Diversity The calamity that can ensue when our rich seed diversity is lost became painfully obvious in the 1840s during the time called the Great ...
( Category: Evolution August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Tao Orion

Everyone Gardens “We are all indigenous to this planet, this garden we are being called on by nature and history to reinhabit in good spirit. To restore the land one ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Chris Pellant

Group Native elements Composition Sb Crystal System Trigonal/hexagonal Habit Tabular or pseudo-cubic, acicular; massive, lamellar, granular Cleavage Perfect Fracture Uneven Specific Gravity 6.7 Hardness 3 to 3½ Colour Grey, silver-grey ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Bill Kilday

Chapter 11 Launching Google Maps Mania At 5:30 a.m. on a chilly morning in late January of 2005, the forty-person Keyhole team (we had already begun to multiply our ranks) ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gwyneth Cravens [Cravens, Gwyneth]

Antinuclear advocates say that external costs such as liability insurance and effects on health and the environment must be included in calculations of the cost of nuclear power, and that ...
( Category: Engineering August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kaplan Test Prep

( Category: SAT August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kaplan Test Prep

( Category: Study Guides August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Miriam Horn

THE INNOVATIONS THAT ARE IN THE WORKS fall into three broad categories. Each technology carries its own mix of advantages and potential environmental impacts. And most illustrate, once again, the ...
( Category: Engineering August 11,2018 )