environmental aspects

Discusses the ecology of rain forests, the problem posed by the present danger to rain forests, and possibilities for the future.

Discusses how the ways that we think about environmentalism has affected the transportation systems.

Discusses how the ways that we think about environmentalism has affected the landscape.

Discusses how the ways that we think about environmentalism has affected the farming of our foods.

Provides step-by-step instructions for more than one hundred craft projects that use recycled materials.

Explores the history of land use, describes renewable and nonrenewable resources, and discusses the importance, management, and conservation of land resources.

Contains entries that examine conflicts and controversies in science and technology, each including resources for further research, covering such topics as alien abductions, chaos theory, eugenics, influenza, pesticides, and space tourism; arranged alphabetically from A to M.

Traces the development of environmentalism, as well as the evolution of agricultural technology, and discusses the interrelatedness of issues affecting both fields, including genetic modification, pesticide usage, and extensive mechanization.

Twenty-seven essays debate issues related to the twenty-first-century American lifestyle, technology, society, and foreign policy, including reliance on oil, genetically engineered foods, hydrogen as an energy source, immigration, education, preemption and unilateralism, relations with Europe, and several others.

Chronicles the Chernobyl catastrophe with interviews of the engineers and operators as well as the victims of the disaster.