Environment
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Alan Rabinowitz

As a graduate student memorizing the taxonomic nomenclature of mammal families, genera, and species, I was told by my instructors not to worry about subspecies classifications because they were not ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Debbie Clarke Moderow

In the end Mark completes Copper Basin, but it isn’t pretty. He stops for ten minutes at Tolsona, twenty miles from the finish, to go inside and fix a failing ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-19 | Author:James Honeyborne & Mark Brownlow [Honeyborne, James]

Humpbacks to the Rescue! In Monterey Bay, a colony of California sea lions is on the move. They are going hunting. An adult needs to eat 5–6 per cent of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Lord Howe Island Stick Insect Dryococelus australis The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect was believed to have become extinct sometime around 1920 and this was due to the introduction of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Timothy Neale

This apparently contradictory formation, in which extensive conservation agreement-making occurred alongside intense division over a conservation law, is a product of the legal evolution of land rights generally. During this ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Diane Smith

CHAPTER 7 The Greatest Game Preserve in the Country City of Refuge or a National Zoological Park When the Yellowstone Park was organized it was believed that a permanent place ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Edward Struzik

Uldis Silins was, at one time, one of those underappreciated forest hydrologists. Not anymore. He was in his office at the University of Alberta in Canada when he got a ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leslie Anthony

Moose Crossing While invasive moose made a mess of Newfoundland, the species was paradoxically experiencing steep declines elsewhere in North America. What was happening varied according to location, but even ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl

15 How the Bookkeepers Can Save the World We are going to start with two facts about fossil fuel prices that would surprise most Americans. You see, none of us ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Daniel Lerch

Specified Resilience, General Resilience, and Adaptive Capacity If resilience is about a complex system retaining its identity, does it only involve learning more about the system in question, finding out ...
( Category: Environment March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-12-29 | Author:Riley E. Dunlap

4. WST Holds That Nations Occupy Structural Positions in a Global Stratification System Like class structures within nations, a few nations move up and down, but the structure remains intact ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-10-19 | Author:Susan Alexandra Crate & Susan Alexandra Crate [Crate, Susan Alexandra]

Figure 4.8. Katrina’s homeplace Katrina describes a classic pre-Soviet Sakha subsistence homestead, where several kin households often worked together to be self-sufficient for their meat, milk, garden produce, and forage ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-29 | Author:Michael Braungart & William McDonough [Braungart, Michael]

Monstrous Hybrids Mountains of waste rising in landfills are a growing concern, but the quantity of these wastes—the space they take up—is not the major problem of cradle-to-grave designs. Of ...
( Category: Engineering March 12,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Steven M. Goodman & William L. Jungers [Goodman, Steven M.]

Figure 53. This photo was taken toward the summit of Analavelona, some 75 km southwest of Ampoza. The upper portion of the massif, largely associated with its orographic position and ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 12,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:John Muir

Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya July 26. Ramble to the summit of Mount Hoffman, eleven thousand feet high, the highest point in life’s journey my feet have yet touched. And ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 12,2018 )