Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape
Of all the outputs of forests, water may be the most important. Streamflow from forests provides two-thirds of the nation's clean water supply. Removing forest cover accelerates the rate that precipitation becomes streamflow; therefore, in some areas, cutting trees causes a temporary increase in the volume of water flowing downstream...
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Hydrology, Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin
The Klamath River basin, which spans parts of southern Oregon and northern California, has been the focus of a prominent conflict over competing uses for water. Management actions to protect threatened and endangered fish species in the basin have left...
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Tackling Marine Debris in the 21st Century
Marine debris from ships and other ocean-based sources-including trash and lost fishing gear-contributes to the spoiling of beaches, fouling of surface waters and the seafloor, and harm to marine animals, among other effects...
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Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States
National interests in greater energy independence, concurrent with favorable market forces, have driven increased production of corn-based ethanol in the United States and research into the next generation of biofuels...
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Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership
The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), a cooperative research and development partnership formed by four federal agencies with 15 industrial partners, was launched in the year 2000 with high hopes that it would dramatically advance the technologies used in trucks...
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Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources
Biodiversity II is a renewed call for urgency. This volume updates readers on how much we already know and how much remains to be identified scientifically.
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Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities
Natural Hazards and Disasters: Reducing Loss and Building Sustainability in a Hazardous World: A Series This volume focuses on the breakdown in sustainability—the capacity of the planet to provide quality of life now and in the future—that is signaled by disaster.
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Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States
Natural Hazards and Disasters: Reducing Loss and Building Sustainability in a Hazardous World: A Series This volume provides an overview of what is known about natural hazards, disasters, recovery, and mitigation, how research findings have been translated into policies and programs; and a sustainable hazard mitigation research agenda.
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Mountains of Madness: A Scientist's Odyssey in Antarctica
Told in a highly accessible and entertaining style, Mountains of Madness is the account of John Long's two unforgettable "summers" on the southern continent. As the story unfolds, we learn of both the highs of scientific discovery as well as the grueling yet essential routines that must be practiced every day just to stay alive in one of the harshest environments on our planet.
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Reefscape: Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef
Part travelogue, part eco-history, Reefscape represents multiple views of the reef—through the eyes of mariners, pearl divers, naturalists, filmmakers, pirates, industrialists, and tourists alike—painting a fascinating portrait of a unique locale.
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The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World
The electrical grid goes everywhere—it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet the system is built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse.

Named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering, the electrical grid is the largest industrial investment in the history of humankind. It reaches into your home, snakes its way to your bedroom, and climbs right up into the lamp next to your pillow....
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Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl
When a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the atmosphere, one of our worst nightmares came true. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was realized, it became clear how horribly wrong things had gone. Dozens died--two from the explosion and many more from radiation illness during the following months--while scores of additional victims came down with acute radiation sickness...
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