416 pages , John Wiley & Sons , 2011-01-05 Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the foundations of our understanding were laid almost two centuries ago with the postulation of a greenhouse effect by Fourier in 1827. The sensitivity of climate to changes in atmospheric CO2 was first estimated about...[Read More]
2018-01-03T08:00:00Z The most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on silviculture that covers the range of topics and issues facing today's foresters and resource professionals
The tenth edition of the classic work, The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, includes the most current information and the results of research on the many issues that...[Read More]
2016-05-03T07:00:00Z A birdsong expert's poignant and beautifully illustrated memoir of a bicycle journey across America with his son
Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over ...[Read More]
2021-07-06T07:00:00Z From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos
Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is ou...[Read More]
My friends Ricky and Lucy join me for a round table discussion and dissection of an issue of Life Magazine from May 14th 1956. This issue features an article ...
President Obama's team of advisors just got a little larger. Kids see first-hand what's working inside and outside of their classrooms, so the President invited ...
Deep underground lie stores of once-inaccessible natural gas. There's a technology, called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that can extract this natural gas, ...
2014-01-19T08:00:00Z The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planet
The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistr...[Read More]
2020-11-10T08:00:00Z No son plantas ni animales y se encuentran en la tierra, en el aire y en nuestros cuerpos. Est?n por doquier, pero cuesta verlos. Adem?s, pueden ser microsc?picos, pero tambi?n representan a los organismos de mayor tama?o jam?s registrados. Comen piedra, crean suelos, asimilan agentes contaminantes, se nutren de plantas, pero tambi?n las matan, sobreviven en el espa...[Read More]
512 pages , Routledge , 2010-07-12 As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisci...[Read More]
754 pages , American Bar Association , 2007 This comprehensive, current examination of U.S. law as it relates to global climate change begins with a summary of the factual and scientific background of climate change based on governmental statistics and other official sources. Subsequent chapters address the international and national frameworks of climate change law, inc...[Read More]
