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acid rain,
84
,
85
,
87

acorns,
100

Acuña, José Luis,
180

Aeschylus,
156

Africa,
33
–36

disease in,
89
–91,
97
–98,
105

edge of extinction in,
243
–44

evolution in,
199

migration from,
262

populations in,
65
,
66

African Rift Valley,
50

agriculture,
71
,
72
–76,
239
,
262

cotton,
82
–85

and evolution,
77
–80,
93

fertilizers,
72
–74,
83
,
84
–85

land devoted to,
88

and meat,
86
–87,
103

and population growth,
75
,
76

rooftop,
86

and soil,
see
soil

tobacco,
83

AIDS,
91
,
104
,
105

Alaska Whale Foundation,
169

Aleutian Islands,
184
–87

algae, and coral reefs,
174

algae blooms,
84

alkaline vents,
28

Alpha Centauri B,
235

Alvan Clark & Sons,
219

Alvarez, Luis Walter,
16

Alvarez, Walter,
16

Alvin
(submersible),
27
,
28

Amazon, black earth in,
80
–82

Amchitka Island,
185
–87

American Indians,
75
,
95
,
96
,
98

Amiskwia
,
32

ammonia,
84
,
87

Amundsen, Roald,
40

Amundson, Ronald,
87

Anderson, Roland C.,
195

Andes Mountains,
1
–5,
43
–44

animals:

breath-holding,
121
,
122
–24

confined feeding of,
103

domestication of,
75
,
95
,
213
,
238

poaching,
211

Anomalocaris
,
32

Antarctica,
171
–72,
175
,
247

antelopes, pronghorn,
208

Anthropocene age,
263

antibiotic resistance,
102
–6

ants, leaf-cutting,
188

Apollo space program,
222

aquaculture,
115

Archer, Steve,
47

Arctic:

ice melt in,
247
,
248

oil reserves in,
248

artificial intelligence (AI),
259
,
260
–61

Asáninka Indians,
3

Asia, population growth in,
65
–66

Atacama Desert,
1

Atlantic Ocean, formation of,
159

Atlantis
(research vessel),
28

atlatl (spear thrower),
236
–37

aurochs,
212

Australia, loss of large animals in,
199

Australian Marine Mammal Research Centre,
169

Australopithecus afarensis
(Lucy),
56

Baja California,
107
–9,
114
,
189

Balisi, Mairin,
214

Barnett, Allan,
177

Barnosky, Anthony,
7
,
88
,
151
,
250

Barrat, James,
260
–61

Battle of Waterloo,
73

Bawa, Kamaljit,
134

Beale, Lt. Edward,
207

bears, short-faced,
214
–15

Beebe, William,
118

beehives,
86

Belnap, Jayne,
144

Bennett, Liz,
211

Bergmann, Carl,
204

Bergmann’s rule,
203
–4

Bernhardt, Emily S.,
24
–25

Big Bang,
251

bighorn sheep,
48

Bikini Atoll,
77

biochar (
terra preta
),
80
–82

biodiversity,
2
–3,
7
,
92

declining,
2
,
245

present crisis of,
22
–23,
129

and soil experiments,
73

species interaction,
133
–34

biosphere,
271

Biosphere 2 (Mars One),
230
–34

biosphere people,
134
–35

black smokers,
27

Blanford, William and Henry,
40

blue-green algae,
29

bonobos,
61
–62

boojum trees,
107

Borlaug, Norman,
78

Boston, watershed program of,
132

Bostrom, Nick,
258
–60

Bowers, Henry,
41

Bowring, Sam,
18
,
19
,
21
,
265

Boyden, Ed,
258

Boyle, Brad,
44

brachiopods,
14

brain, uploading,
258
–63

Brainy Bonnie (orangutan),
60
–61

Brophy, James,
34

Brown, Caitlin,
214

Brusatte, Stephen,
244

bryozoans,
14

Burgess, George,
190
,
191

Burgess Shale,
30
–32

Burmese pythons,
45
–46

Calambokidis, John,
169

California condor,
7

California Current,
121

Cambrian explosion,
29
,
31
–33

Cambrian period,
30

camels, in North America,
207
,
210

Camp Pendleton,
163

Canidae family,
204
–5,
238

Capitan Reef, Texas,
11
–14,
17
,
18
,
32

carbon,
26
,
82
,
85
,
247

Carroll, Scott,
213

Carson, Rachel,
125
,
176

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies,
24
–25,
28
,
271

cats, saber-and scimitar-toothed,
201
,
202
,
214
,
216

CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons),
228

Chan, Margaret,
106

cheetahs, rewilding,
207
–8,
209
,
210

Chernobyl exclusion zone,
165
–66

Chicxulub crater, Mexico,
16
–17,
271

Chihuahuan Desert,
206

China:

agriculture in,
75
,
78
,
83

disease in,
92

mining for rare earth metals,
178

and the perfect soldier,
257

Permian-Triassic boundary line in,
18
–19

population growth in,
65
,
66

traditional medicine in,
211

Choate, Dave,
163

Civil War, US,
269

Claraia
(scallop),
159
,
181

climate change:

abrupt,
245
–46

and carbon release,
247

computer models of,
245
–46

effect on species,
3
,
48
–49,
113

and melting ice,
248
–50

cloning,
257

Clovis people,
200
,
201
,
205

CO
₂
,
19
,
21
,
22
,
25
,
64
,
87
,
169
,
172
,
173

Cochran, Gregory,
237
,
238
,
239
,
252
–53,
254
–55

Coleman, Kevin,
76

Colnett, James,
116

Colorado River,
145
–47,
148
–49

Columbus, Christopher,
95

Conde, Dalia Amor,
136
–40

Conservation International,
1
,
2
,
43
–44

continental drift,
37
,
39
,
40
,
41
–42,
159

Coolidge, Calvin,
142

coral reefs,
14
,
173
,
174

Cortés, Hernan,
95

cotton,
82
–85

cougars,
201

Courtillot, Vincent,
271

Cretaceous extinction:

asteroid as cause of,
6
,
16
–17,
20
,
73
,
184
,
244

evidence of,
16
–17,
271

oxygen deprivation in,
113

recovery from,
152

crinoids,
13
–14

crocodiles,
53
–54,
55
,
161
–62,
174

Crutzen, Paul J.,
263

Cucapá Indians,
149

cuneiform writing,
75

Curiosity
rover,
221

cuttlefish,
194
–95

cyanobacteria,
29

Darwin, Charles,
15
,
97

and Galápagos,
21
,
27
,
37
–38,
179

and HMS
Beagle
,
37
–39

On the Origin of Species
,
39
,
56
,
238

theory of evolution,
27
,
32
–33

Dawkins, Richard,
244

DDT,
77
,
209

Death Valley National Park,
203
–4