Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Richard Fortey

Greys Court Affairs The history of our wood and the story of Greys Court are intimately entwined. But even an estate like Rotherfield Greys cannot be fenced off from the ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Roger Deakin

Pyrenees Autumn comes late to the wooded southerly slopes of the Spanish Pyrenees. The mountains are a natural climatic boundary between the rest of Europe to the north and the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-26 | Author:Tim Winton

The power of place It was comically presumptuous of me, but while I was still in high school I’d begun to think of myself as a writer. At seventeen I’d ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Adams, Douglas & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas]

BLIND PANIC ASSUMPTIONS ARE THE things you don’t know you’re making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a washbasin in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Ariel Rubissow Okamoto & Kathleen M. Wong

Booms deployed during fuel transfers in Puget Sound, Washington, to help prevent any spilled oil from contaminating the ecosystem. (Washington State Department of Ecology) Most critical for the bay in ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark & Richard York

Navigating the Great Divide: Realism versus Constructionism From its first appearance in the mid-1970s until the 1990s, environmental sociology was characterized by “an almost universal commitment … to a realist ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Waldbauer, Gilbert, Dr.

Figure 8. A North American skunk and an unpalatable African butterfly independently evolved conspicuous black-and-white color patterns that warn predators of their noxiousness. The majority of the 350,000 known beetle ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Stephen L. Buchmann & Gary Paul Nabhan

All together, Pak Teh and his crew would gather nearly a thousand pounds of honey from this tree. It was but one of about ten trees they tend, trees widely ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:Alan Castle

BIRDS OF THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL As the John Muir Trail winds up and down along the Sierra Nevada, backpackers walk daily through varied terrain and habitats of differing vegetation ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Garone, Philip [Garone, Philip]

THE SCIENCE OF SELENIUM The chemistry of selenium reveals why it is highly toxic above certain thresholds. First discovered by Jon Jakob Berzelius in 1817, selenium has an atomic structure ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alagona, Peter

THE DESERT REORGANIZED In the two decades that followed the desert tortoise’s listing, a series of complex, intertwined political processes transformed land and natural resource management in the Mojave Desert. ...
( Category: Americas September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Paul Sabin

Paul and Anne Ehrlich in London, 1986. Courtesy of Sally Kellock. Despite his accomplishments, Julian Simon felt frustrated, too. He also had tried to start a new advocacy group to ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 22,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

One of the Roman’s fiercest critics was the lyric poet Christine de Pizan, who turned to poetry some time after the death in 1390 of her husband, a secretary to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-21 | Author:Lawrence Scanlan [Scanlan, Lawrence]

Marguerite Henry surely read of Black Beauty. She wrote several classics of her own: Misty of Chincoteague, King of the Wind and Black Gold. There is enough subtlety in the ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

When the light starts to fail at day’s end, we reluctantly pack up to leave. Soon the cliffs will be full of nesting shadows, and climbing back up to the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 20,2017 )