Environment
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 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Black

THE SPECTACLE OF WOOD Sometimes, Pinku said, as the mourners wait for the flame to be lit and debate the purpose and meaning of life, you may hear a song ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Greg French

If mackinaw populations are so vulnerable, why, I wonder, isn’t the suppression program working in Yellowstone Lake? In About Trout, Behnke contradicted the idea that the lake’s native cutthroats and ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-19 | Author:Sara Mansfield Taber

SPECIFICITY, PRECISION, AND CONCRETE DETAIL Jot down, with as much exactitude as possible, the distinguishing details of the world around you. Use all your observational powers, bringing to bear the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:John de Graaf & David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor

HYPERCOMMERCIALISM Our hypercommercial era is one in which images are everywhere, and “image,” as tennis star Andre Agassi says in the sunglasses commercial, “is everything.” The daily bombardment of advertising ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 19,2018 )
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 | | Author:David Helvarg

If no such a group operates in your area, start one with friends and neighbors. Begin by educating yourselves: contact some of the wetlands groups listed in the Resources directory ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-28 | Author:Judith Shapiro [Shapiro, Judith]

According to an elderly former worker interviewed in Haigeng Park, a military officer surnamed Liang ordered local people to encircle a bay between Chengong and Kunyang counties to try to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Stephen F. Arno & Stephen Allison-Bunnell [Arno, Stephen F.]

Fire-Initiated Age Classes of Trees When a fire heavily thins or kills a forest, a flush of new tree regeneration is likely to follow. You can identify such a cohort ...
( Category: Biological Sciences 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 | 0101-01-01 | Author:Vladimir Megre [Megre, Vladimir]

Anastasia unexpectedly fell silent and began looking up. I looked up too. I saw a large eagle circling over the glade. I had seen eagles something like that at the ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality 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 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-10 | Author:Philip Lymbery

12 Penguin NO MORE FISH IN THE SEA Robben Island, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held captive for eighteen years, had a long and sombre history, as a prison, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 11,2018 )