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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
A pesticide chemical that interferes with hormones. It is suspected to cause vaginal cancer, immune system deficiencies, and birth defects.
Industry:Biology
The high and low tide preceding a neap tide. Combined tidal pulls from Sun and Moon make the tide rise higher and fall lower than normal.
Industry:Biology
Dispersion of particles back into water, as when wave action or dredging stir up sediments that had fallen out of suspension and settled.
Industry:Biology
Plankton that do not produce their own food, as phytoplankton do. In size they fall between phytoplankton and larger organisms like fish.
Industry:Biology
An organism that screens its food from water. Baleen whales do this by forcing seawater past the baleen plates they use instead of teeth.
Industry:Biology
Global winds; they blow above 1,000 meters up and are driven more by pressure/temperature factors than by surface features or conditions.
Industry:Biology
The belief that we can use up resources, throw away the remains, and move on to fresh ones. It is a holdover of the frontiersman mindset.
Industry:Biology
Able to tolerate different depths in water (like a sperm whale, which can ride on the surface or dive deeply). Contrast with Stenobathic.
Industry:Biology
A rainless region on the lee side of a mountain. Clouds have often been drained of rainwater by the time they reach it over the mountain.
Industry:Biology
An economic system in which the wealthiest players are free to make as much money as they can regardless of consequences or catastrophes.
Industry:Biology
