Environmental Physics concerns the description and analysis of physical processes that establish the conditions in which all species of life survive and reproduce. The subject involves a synthesis of mathematical relations that describe the physical nature of the environment and the many biological responses that environments evoke. Environmental Physics provides a basis for understanding the complex responses of plants and animals to environmental change.

International concern with climate change has made both politicans and the general public much more aware of the impact...

ICARDA has the serious and urgent responsibility for increasing the quantity and availability of food in the extensive North Africa-West Asia region, and therefore must give high priority to optimising the use of soil water and nitrogen which are considered to be among the main limiting factors to production. To obtain the knowledge to further this aim, and with the help of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), ICARDA is developing a special project on 'Increasing the Fixation of Soil Nitrogen and the Efficiency of Soil Water Use in Rainfed Agricultural Systems in the Countries of...

Although he's a man who professes a devotion to peace, Jonathan Jameson often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when trouble is brewing. Abandoning life as an undistinguished academic after his wife has divorced him in favor of his best friend, Jonathan flees to bucolic English village Brownlow to lick his wounds. But does he find the tranquility he seeks? As CID Inspector Darling summed up while questioning him at the start of the Christmas season: "So that's one man beaten to death, a crushed cat, a broken neck, a wounded dog, a hanging, a stabbing, a broken arm, a...