Water Levels

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This volumes of primary source documents focuses on the environment, a leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, this title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents--speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art--as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. This title also contain an introduction to the environment, a chronology of major events associated with the environment, and a general index.;Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Roots of environmental and ecological thought -- The physical earth -- The biosphere -- Exploration -- Environmental legislation -- Energy use and perils -- Environmental disasters -- Conservation and activism.;Using Primary Sources -- Chronology -- Roots of Environmental and Ecological Thought -- The Pioneers -- Birds of America -- Walden -- "The Big Trees of California" -- An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 -- Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action -- The White-Thorn Blossom -- "Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero" -- "The Wonders of Yellowstone" -- Roughing It -- The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States -- An Address by J. Sterling Morton on Arbor Day 1885 -- Octavia Hill (1838-1912) founds English National Trust -- Our National Parks -- Drawing the Line in Mississippi -- Nature -- A Book Lover's Holiday in the Open -- Mt. Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California -- The Green Belt -- "'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer" -- Rachel Carson Dies of Cancer -- "The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis" -- "The Tragedy of the Commons" -- "American Institutions and Ecological Ideals" -- Coming into the Country -- Gorillas in the Mist -- Fascist Ecology -- Julia "Butterfly" Hill Stands In A 200-Foot Tall Old-Growth Redwood Tree -- Gaia: A new look at life on Earth -- The Physical Earth -- "Piecing Continents Together" -- "A Mountain" -- Sulfur plumes off Namibia -- Four False Color Views of Ocean Surface Height of the Pacific Ocean -- "Low Ozone Level Found Above Antarctica" -- "A Semidesert with a Desert Heart" -- "At Last, the Smoking Gun?" -- Fires Raging Across Indonesia -- "The Torino Impact Hazard Scale" -- Climate Change Impacts on the United States -- "The New View of Natural Climate Variation" -- Dust Cloud over Japan -- Holes in Ozone Layer of Earth -- Earth Story -- Water Resources of the United States -- WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2004 -- "Shrinking Glaciers Evidence of Global Warming: Differences Seen by Looking at Photos From 100 Years Ago" -- The Seasons and the Earth's Orbit -- "Global Warming: The Culprit? Evidence mounts that human activity is helping fuel these monster hurricanes" -- The Biosphere -- A Naturalist in Nicaragua -- The Sewers of Paris, Purification Service -- Our Vanishing Wildlife -- Lead Helps to Guard Your Health -- Botanist George Washington Carver in Arboretum -- Stanley Miller Working in Laboratory -- World Wildlife Fund -- "The Carbon Cycle and Climate Warming" -- Artificial Reefs -- The Control of Nature -- Experimental Fish Guidance Devices -- "A New Paradigm" -- "From the Modern Synthesis to Lysenkoism, and Back? Portraits Of Science" -- "Turning the Tide?" -- "Pesticide Persisting Beyond Scheduled Elimination Date" -- Annual Permit Limits for Nitrogen and Phosphorus for Permits Designed to Protect Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries from Excess Nutrient Loading under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System -- "Deep In the Swamp, an 'Extinct' Woodpecker Lives" -- "Ecological Land Mines" -- Exploration -- The Louisiana Purchase -- Expedition Chart -- Discovery of the Yosemite -- The Pampas and Andes -- "Yosemite Glaciers" -- "The Excursion" -- "Expedition of 1898-1902" -- My First Summer in the Sierra -- The Living Sea -- Voyager II's Gold Disc "Sounds of Earth" -- The Log from the Sea of Cortez -- "Isotopic Evidence for Extraterrestrial Non-Racemic Amino Acids in the Murchison Meteorite" -- "The Greenland Expedition of 1925" -- The Science Bit ... Part 3 ... The Larsen B Ice Shelf Disintegration -- Environmental Legislation -- R.V. Medley and Others -- Department of the Interior Established -- Yellowstone National Park Act -- Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 -- Federal Power Act of 1920, as Amended -- "The True History of Teapot Dome" -- Tree-Toting Members of Civilian Conservation Corps -- A Radio Address on the Third Anniversary of C.C.C. -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- The Antarctic Treaty -- Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water -- The Water Quality Act of 1965 -- United States v. Standard Oil -- Wild and Scenic Rivers Act -- National Park Service Organic Act -- National Environmental Policy Act -- DOI Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act -- EPA Establishes Hazardous Waste Enforcement and Emergency Response System -- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) -- Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 (WPT) -- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act -- Oil Pollution Act -- Clean Air Act -- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Framework Convention on Climate Change -- Kyoto Protocol -- HR3515-Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 -- Economic and Security and Recovery Act of 2001 -- Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990 -- Testimony of Christine Todd Whitman -- Mercury Reduction Act of 2003 -- Coastal Zone Renewable Energy Act of 2003 -- Marine Debris Research Prevention and Reduction Act -- Energy Use and Perils -- Edwin L. Drake Strikes Oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania -- Hoover Dam -- Atoms for Peace -- 1975 State of the Union Address -- Energy Policy Act of 1992 -- "The Dam" -- Energy Policy Act of 2005 -- Study on Energy Supply Security and Geopolitics -- Environmental Disasters -- Debate of Senate Bill 203. 38th Congress, 1864 -- Dust Bowl Blues -- Skyline of Downtown Los Angeles Shrouded and Obscured by Smog -- "Oil Slick is Shroud for Birds" -- Cumberland Mountain Area Scarred by Strip Mining -- "The Love Canal Tragedy" -- "The Big Spill: -- Mercury Residues and Poisoning -- Taj Mahal Facade Carving Detail with Chips -- Wreckage at the Site of the World Trade Center -- The Amazonian Rainforest under Siege from Illegal Loggers -- "Memories Still Linger 25 Years After Three Mile Island Accident" -- Wave's Environmental Toll: -- In Harm's Way: Hurricanes, Population Trends and Environmental Change -- Conservation and Activism -- "An Anti-Smoke Rally" -- Radon Health Mines -- Environmental Action Group -- "Nation Set to Observe Earth Day" -- "Wilderness as a Form of Land Use" -- Environmental Damage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe -- "An African Success Story" -- "Rent-Seeking Behind the Green Curtain" -- The Water Sourcebooks: K-12 -- Sewage Protestors Hold a "Toilet Protest" -- Globalization and Poverty: An Ecological Perspective -- Antinuclear Activists Confront Police -- "And Now, a New York Version of Star Wars" -- Vision Statement for the World Summit on Sustainable Development -- Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change -- Protesters at Site of New Terminal 5, Heathrow -- Indian Schoolgirl Urges People to Drink Natural Beverages -- Boiling Point -- Wangari Maathai-Nobel Lecture -- "15 Arrested in Land Rover Protest" -- "Rescuing Environmentalism" -- "Laws Don't Work if They're Only on Paper" -- Chernobyl Disaster Spurs Ecological Movements in Eastern Europe -- How to Conserve Water and Use It Effectively -- Demonstrations against Transfer of French Warship to India for Asbestos Removal.