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…fisheries, which contributed to their decline. Canada and Spain came to the brink of serious conflict over the cod on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland in the early 1990s. Widespread…
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…advancing steadily. Some mitigation will be cheap. Strictly curtailing emissions might cost 2 percent. Gradual control steps are better. Doubling of concentration is not inevitable. Decarbonization and efficiency of the…
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JH Ausubel.
Am Sci
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…tenfold, with the U.S. and Canada the highest. Allowing for differences in major uses (irrigation, electrical cooling, industry, public water supply), large opportunities for reductions remain. In the late 1980s…
…cost money. The engineer nodded his head vigorously. He did not expect such a great favor for nothing. That was understood. A special document does not come cheap. Morgulyev was…
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…USDA Forest Products Laboratory. KAFUS INDUSTRIES. 1999. Kafus options 147,000 acres in Arizona as proposed site for increased kenaf fibre production. News release. Available online at www. Kafus.com/pr/news.html. MOULTON, R.J.,…
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…Greater wealth enables people to buy higher speed, and when transit quickens, cities spread. Both average wealth and numbers will grow, so cities will take more land. What are the…
…benefit. The warmer it gets, the more air conditioners people buy. And the more air conditioners they buy, the warmer it gets: Air conditioners, after all, are major consumers of…
…Environmental Progress PHE collaborates with Environmental Progress, led by Michael Shellenberger, which seeks to lift humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment by removing obstacles to cheap, reliable…