32 pages , Charlesbridge Publishing , 2007 Rhyming text and illustrations introduces animals with a cumulative amount of young--from one alligator to ten crayfish--that live in a Okefenokee Swamp.
408 pages , CRC Press , 2011-04-25 As the world population grows and places more demand on limited fossil fuels, renewable energy becomes more relevant as part of the solution to the impending energy dilemma. Renewable energy is now included in national policies, with goals for it to be a significant percentage of generated energy within the coming decades. A comprehensi...[Read More]
727 pages , Springer Science & Business Media , 2011-06-27 This second volume of Energy Resources and Systems is focused on renewable energy resources. Renewable energy mainly comes from wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, ocean, bioenergy, ethanol and hydrogen. Each of these energy resources is important and growing. For example, high-head hydroelectric energy is a wel...[Read More]
With our world's growing waste problem, ways to minimize and recycle are becoming increasingly important. We are always told by our parents and friends to ...
2019-02-09T08:00:00Z This is a guide and manual is for implementing the program Earth Leaders for Environmental Monitoring. Children will be taught to make modules using sensors for environmental monitoring and share the information. All the children participating in this program are considered as Earth Leaders, that is because of the values that they create for the earth. The intention...[Read More]
2013-09-10T07:00:00Z In Alternative Ecological Risk Assessment the author, Lawrence V. Tannenbaum, provides a critical review of current practices in the ecological risk assessment field and proposes alternatives that are supported by established science and keen observation. It is hoped that this approach will pave the way to a greater understanding of what appropriate an...[Read More]
This is a forum designed so that people may explore, appreciate and display Caribbean nature—the landscapes, the flora, fauna, forests, woodlands, shores, waters, the aesthetics, cultures, climate, marine environment, and the many people who revel, cherish and embrace these unique treasures. By sharing and celebrating these wonders, we may just be able to save of the region's wild places, s...[Read More]
231 pages , University of Toronto Press , 2006 There is a fundamental contradiction between economics and ecology. Activities that increase well-being by economic criteria often erode ecosystem vitality, and what preserves and enhances environmental well-being is often deemed 'inefficient' to economic demands. Regrettably, in our culture, we usually accord much greater i...[Read More]
762 pages , Springer Science & Business Media , 2012-12-06 Water Pollution is a subject of growing concern in our industrial world. The environmental problems caused by the increase of pollutant loads dis charged into natural water systems have led the scientific community to pursue studies capable of relating the pollutant discharge with changes in the water quality. Th...[Read More]
