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Life on Earth by David Attenborough
epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:David Attenborough

So feathers did not evolve initially for flight and do not define birds. The birds inherited them from feathered ancestors. And this leads to the realisation that all dinosaurs were ...
( Category: Wildlife January 20,2020 )
Putting on the Dog by Melissa Kwasny
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Melissa Kwasny [Kwasny, Melissa]

Spirit We arrive at Crow Fair with plenty of time before the grand entry. Promoted as the “Teepee Capital of the World,” Crow Fair, held on the Apsáalooke, or Crow, ...
( Category: Fashion January 19,2020 )
Sunburnt Country by Joelle Gergis
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Joelle Gergis [Gergis, Joelle]

27 NATURAL VARIABILITY VERSUS HUMAN INFLUENCE Before the Industrial Revolution kicked off around 1750, the Earth’s climate was almost purely operating under natural conditions. Because the human population was still ...
( Category: Weather January 19,2020 )
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – a New Earth by Charles Massy
epub |eng | 2017-12-02 | Author:Charles Massy [Massy, Charles]

( Category: Conservation January 19,2020 )
Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay by Marilyn Sigman
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Marilyn Sigman

The charter boat fleet are well behind the commercial longline fleet in the amount of halibut their clients catch with hook and line and gaff on their daily forays. The ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
Three Laws of Nature by R. Stephen Berry
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:R. Stephen Berry [Berry, R. Stephen]

Figure 14. James Prescott Joule. (Courtesy of Wikimedia) William Thomson, who became Lord Kelvin of Largs in 1892 (Fig. 15), and his older brother James played very important roles in ...
( Category: Thermodynamics January 19,2020 )
Dinner with Darwin by Jonathan Silvertown
epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Jonathan Silvertown [Silvertown, Jonathan]

11 Cheese—Dairying Milk is the only food that we can truthfully say has evolved expressly for our consumption. Cheese is the result of sharing this gift of evolution with other ...
( Category: Natural History January 19,2020 )
Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands Versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change by Stephen Nash
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Stephen Nash [Nash, Stephen]

Not long ago, evincing concern about climate change and other environmental threats, the BLM convened a group of federal scientists to develop a national “Rapid Ecoregional Assessments” technique, “to more ...
( Category: Natural Resources January 19,2020 )
Dinosaurs by Norman David;
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Norman, David; [Norman, David;]

29. Deinonychus. A reconstruction from bone to flesh. Perhaps it too had a filamentous covering? Ornithischian dinosaurs All ornithischians are thought to have been herbivorous and, rather like modern-day mammals, ...
( Category: Dinosaurs January 19,2020 )
The Ghosts of Gombe: A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness by Dale Peterson
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Dale Peterson [Peterson, Dale]

2. Once, during the summer, Geza heard one of the FWI short-term volunteers talk about her physical attraction for the male chimps. She wondered aloud: “Which one of them would ...
( Category: Zoology January 19,2020 )
Flock Together by B.J. Hollars
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:B.J. Hollars [Hollars, B.J.]

Stanley Temple has hardly left the lectern before Joel Greenberg leaps to take his place. Greenberg is in many ways the opposite of the more reserved Schorger: a loquacious, booming-voiced ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides January 19,2020 )
The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero by Brett Favaro
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-22 | 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: Weather January 19,2020 )
Petrified Forest National Park by George M. Lubick
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:George M. Lubick

Painted Desert Inn, 1940, following the renovation by the Civilian Conservation Corps (Photograph courtesy of Petrified Forest National Park) By the end of the following year, renovation was nearly finished. ...
( Category: Natural Resources January 19,2020 )
Oxford World’s Classics by Aristotle & Fred D. Miller Jr
epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:Aristotle & Fred D. Miller, Jr.

( Category: Literary January 19,2020 )
The Variety of Integral Ecologies by Sam Mickey Sean Kelly Adam Robbert
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Sam Mickey,Sean Kelly,Adam Robbert [Sam Mickey,Sean Kelly,Adam Robbert]

8 FIVE PRINCIPLES OF INTEGRAL ECOLOGY Sean Kelly A LOOMING MASS EXTINCTION of species the likes of which has not been seen in 65 million years, global climate change, habitat ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )

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