Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2022-07-05 | Author:Alistair Paton [Paton, Alistair]

Eric Worrell milking a tiger snake for its venom, 1968. (National Archives of Australia) Worrell befriended a poet named Roland Robinson and the pair returned to the Northern Territory in ...
( Category: Natural Disasters September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Julien Gracq [Gracq, Julien]

* “I had not yet taken more than twenty steps while following the man who carried my suitcase when I realized that I was in a great city” (Stendhal, Souvenirs ...
( Category: Geography September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Peter Stott [Stott, Peter]

9 Mounting devastation The New Zealand newspaper the Dominion Post carried a shocking image on the front page of its edition for Wednesday 9 January 2013. It showed a woman ...
( Category: Rivers September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-05 | Author:Amy Brady [Brady, Amy]

AFTER THE STORM MARY ANNAÏSE HEGLAR “Granddaddy! GET BACK IN THE HOUSE!” Of all the things I thought I’d be doing on this visit back to Mississippi, yelling at my ...
( Category: Climatology September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-15 | Author:Dave Lowe [Lowe, Dave]

CHAPTER 11 A TALE OF SERENDIPITY My search continued for a technique to determine low levels of atmospheric formaldehyde. The handwritten lab books I used during those first few weeks ...
( Category: Environmental Science September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-22 | Author:Eric P. Fisher [Fisher, Eric P.]

The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 “Our house—ours for 25 years—all our possessions, just gone. My God, it was something devastating and unreal, like the beginning of the world ...
( Category: Atmospheric Sciences September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Bruce W. Hayward; [Hayward;, Bruce W.]

This bronze statue of Sir John Logan Campbell and fountain at the Manukau Rd entrance to Cornwall Park was erected in 1906 to mark the former mayor of Auckland’s generosity ...
( Category: Earthquakes & Volcanoes September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Som Prakash Verma; [Verma;, Som Prakash]

On the 7th Azar [November 18, 1613] I went to see and shoot on the tank of Pushkar, which is one of the established praying-places of the Hindus, with regard ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Nick Middleton [Middleton, Nick]

Water power The energy in flowing and falling water has been harnessed to perform work by turning waterwheels for more than 2,000 years. The moving water turns a large wheel ...
( Category: Rivers September 19,2022 )
pdf |en | | Author: Kalliopi Fouseki, May Cassar, Guillaume Dreyfuss, Kelvin Ang Kah Eng (eds.)

( Category: Geography September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:McGuire, Bill [McGuire, Bill]

The seas rise up In 2005, residents of Tegua, a tiny island in the South Pacific’s Vanuatu archipelago, were forced by rising seas to abandon their coastal villages and move ...
( Category: Climatology September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-17 | Author:Alwyn Scarth [Scarth, Alwyn]

The Vesuvius gate at Pompeii, to the left of which lie some of the very thick layers of pumice and ash that had to be removed before the buildings were ...
( Category: Seismology September 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Susan Williams, Stephen Hoffius [Susan Williams, Stephen Hoffius]

Chapter Fourteen THE OLD JOY OF COMBAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE experienced the unthinkable become conditioned to expect the worst. After a month of living in the ruins and feeling the ...
( Category: Natural Disasters September 17,2022 )