Nature & Ecology
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Leslie Jamison

I tried her one last time. She didn’t have to talk to me, I told her. I just wanted the letters. Then I told her media rep. I tried to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 21,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Robinson, Kim Stanley [Robinson, Kim Stanley]

Ahead of us the headwall of the glacier, the crux of our climb, the heart knot of our pilgrimage. A most serious case of kao-yuan perspective. I’ll practice silence now, ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Ted Danson [Danson, Ted]

HMS Challenger, circa 1872 For centuries even the most learned scientists assumed that no life-form could survive at the greatest depths of the oceans. That notion prevailed until a four-year, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Bradbury

When it snows, when it really snows, everything is silenced. Everything is stopped somehow, hidden from view, put on pause. A cat streaks silently across an unseen lawn, a bird ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Darby Nelson

Diamond Lake has succumbed to an unholy synergy. How did this lake come to possess such a mother lode of phosphorus? The pastoral view from the landing provides few direct ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Adam Weymouth

The bedrock of Rock Island, out there in the middle of the river, was once earmarked as the foundation for what John F. Kennedy declared would be “the greatest dam ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

MAY 3, 1982 “That plan is ‘Mein Kampf,’ ” said Lewis Rosenberg, a lawyer and director of the New York City Audubon Society. “It has not been approved by the ...
( Category: Architecture May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Cameron MacDonald

After three days of intensive family time, I need to get away, and searching for an endangered wood turtle provides the perfect excuse to get out of Dodge. I ask ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Mary Colwell

And alone in the night’s eternal, curving act They yearn with tongues of curlews for the unconceived. But the curlew is also a raucous member of life’s rich menagerie, which ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-12 | Author:Max Foran

The Woodland Caribou Caribou are another inhabitant of boreal regions and have become synonymous with Canada’s northern environments. Also known as reindeer in North America, they are the only member ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author: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: Biological Sciences May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Jaboury Ghazoul

Cyclones devastate tropical forests near coasts, such as Australia’s Wet Tropics region. Severe forest damage is largely contained within fifty kilometres of the cyclone’s track, and even within this zone ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology May 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Totman, Conrad;

By Illegal Felling 1,826,783 By Natural Causes 2,010,957 Thus natural damage – mostly due to high winds, heavy snowfall or lightning strikes – ruined less than a third as many ...
( Category: Asia May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:Charles Sheppard

Thus the quantity of living organic tissue on the reef at any one time is not necessarily very great but its rapid growth and consumption, its productivity, is immense. Chapter ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-09 | Author:David DeGrazia

Is death a harm? Death is distinct from dying. Dying, a process involving a still-living individual, typically involves suffering, especially if the dying process is protracted. Suffering that may occur ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 9,2018 )