Diane Ackerman - The Human Age

Greenland, 42

green mussels, 131

Green over Grey, 83

growing season, 42

Guam, 139, 157

Guam rail, 139

Guatemala, 88

Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), 218

Gurdon, John, 150, 160

Gut Erlasee Solar Park, 106–7

Guthrie, Barton, 261

habitat loss, 154

Haiyan, Typhoon, 46

Hamilton, Clive, 314

Hansen, James, 314

Hansmeyer, Michael, 236

Harvard University, 235

Hastings, Battle of, 190

heart, 150, 239, 248, 249, 250–51, 281

heat, 41

heaters, 87

heat recycling, 95–108

Helm, Barbara, 114

Henri, Pascal, 84

herbs, 89

Hernandez, Isaias, 264–65

herons, 193–94

Heuchera plants, 80–81

High Line, 77

Hitler, Adolf, 273

hockey, 40

Holocene, 9

Homer, 262

Honda, 236

Hong Sun Hye, 102

horse chestnut trees, 153

Horse Island, 58

horses, 137–38, 140, 145–46

hostas, 125

Hudson River, 54–55

hulls, 91

human genome, 13

Human Genome Project, 270, 274, 282, 285, 289, 300

Human Microbiome Project, 289

human rights, global warming and, 48

humans:

as eusocial, 288

geographic expansion of, 10

geography changed by, 11

history of, 71

orangutan genes shared by, 3

population growth of, 10

technological changes to bodies of, 13

tools used by, 7, 9

humans, environmental effects of:

climate change, see global warming

and possibility of nuclear winter, 8–9

hummingbirds, 126

hunter-gatherers, 71

Huntington’s disease, 271

Hurricane Irene, 57

Hurricane Katrina, 46

hurricanes, 31, 41, 43, 55

Hurricane Sandy, see Sandy, Hurricane

hybrid cars, 100

Hyde Park, 142

hydroelectronic power, 100, 107

hydroponic gardening, 83, 89, 90

Icarus, 224

icebergs, 195–96, 197

Iceland, 77

ice packs, 41–42

iCub, 218–19

iGlasses, 261

igloos, 86

iguanas, 131

Ike Dike, 50

Iliad (Homer), 262

India, 88, 107, 132, 175

Indian mongoose, 132

Indonesia, 132, 313

induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS), 150–51, 160–63

industrial farming, 60

Industrial Revolution, 34, 106, 185–86, 232, 235, 267

Inheritors, The (Golding), 162

insects, 166

insulin pumps, 253

intelligence of plants, 205–7

International Union for Conservation of Nature, 313

Internet, 199–200, 235

Inuit, 86

invasive species, 132, 154

Iran, 147

Iraq War, 258

Ireland, 132

Irene, Hurricane, 57

irises, 125

iron fertilization, 53

Island of Dr. Moreau, The (Wells), 267–68

Israel, 76

Istanbul, Turkey, 78

Italy, 88, 107

Ithaa Restaurant, 76

Ivanpah, 106

Ivins, Molly, 206

Jaguar Corridor, 123

Jamaica Bay, 119

Jamaican fruit bats, 131

Japan, 88

industrial tourism in, 23

Japan beetles, 295

Japanese honeysuckle, 132

Jarrell, Randall, 45

jellyfish, 65, 181

Jernhusen, 96–97, 98

Jerusalem, 77

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 220

Jim River, Alaska, 40

Johansson, Klas, 96–97

Johns Hopkins University, 244

Jordan, Terry, 31–32

Jungle Waterfalls, 83

Kahn, Peter H., 196

Kalmar, Sweden, 99–100

kangaroo, 296

Kanzi (bonobo), 202

Katrina, Hurricane, 46

katydids, 173–74

Kawasaki, Japan, 23

Keating, Tim, 147

kelp, 56, 57, 58, 60, 63–64

biofuels from, 64

Kenya, 124

Khoshnevis, Behrokh, 235

Kidd, Captain, 58

kidney, 239

King, Ross, 221

Kiribati, 49

knapweed, 166

knife fish, 147–48

Knights of the Order of the Barrier, 51

koalas, 164

Kockums, 101

Kojo Moe (Ohyama), 23

Korup National Park, 126

krill, 134

Kublai Khan, 272

Kubrick, Stanley, 269

kudzu vine, 132

Kungsbrohuset office building, 96

Kurzweil, Ray, 181, 218

Lactobacillus johnsonii , 301

Lafferty, Kevin, 299

Lake Cayuga, 30–31

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 276–77

Lammens, Kathy, 302

lampreys, 132

Lancet , 277, 278

landscapes, 22–23

manufactured, 23–25

language, 7, 10, 171, 191, 255, 303

of animals, 201–3

Language Research Center, 201–2

Larry (boa), 130

lead, 271

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), 88

Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 184

Lederberg, Joshua, 289

LED lights, 90, 103–4

Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van, 290

Leno, Jay, 235

leopards, 118

leucine, 179

Library of Congress, 59

lifespan, 13

lights, 17

Lincoln Memorial, 59

Lindholm, Bosse, 100

Linnaeus, Carl, 217

lions, 164, 273

Lipson, Hod, 208–25, 226–27, 229, 235, 247, 250

livers, 150, 248

Living Machines Conference, 218–19

local farms, 88

Lockheed Martin, 236

locusts, 41

London, 50–51

London Zoo, 159

Long Island Sound, 60

loosestrife, 132

Losiny Ostrov National Park, 78

lotusin, 91

Louisiana, 46

Louv, Richard, 196

lungs, 239, 248

Lyme disease, 121

Lyme ticks, 39

lynxes, 132

macaws, 164

Maeslantkering, 50

magnolias, 111–12

magpies, 217

Mail Online , 271

malaria, 302

Malaysia, 79

Maldives, 76–77

mallards, 117

Mall of America, 96

Mandarin Chinese, 281

mantis shrimp, 61

manufactured landscapes, 23–25

manufacturing, 12

mariculture, 56–67

pushback against, 64–65

marigolds, 90

marine transport pollution, 76

Marshall Islands, 314

marsh rabbits, 129

Marsico, Ron, 119

Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, 103–4

Masters, Jeff, 47

mastodons, 31

Mayflower , 132

McDonough, William, 87–88

McGill University, 282, 284

McKibben, Bill, 112

McMurdo Station, 88–90

Meaney, Michael, 282–84

Mecanoo, 104

medical ecology, 300

medicine, 7, 12–13

Medieval Warm Period, 43

Mehler, Mark, 282

memories, 255

Men Who Stare at Goats, The (Ronson), 146

Mercedes, 236

mercury, 271

Mesopotamia, 235

metal alloy teeth, 253

methylation, 281

Mexico, 88

Mexico City, 77, 82–83

mice, 302

Michigan, 132

microbes, 287–304

effects of, on humans, 292, 295–303

evolution affected by, 292–93

microbiome, 289

microscope, 290

microtia, 244–45

Milky Way, 176

Milton, John, 51, 212–13

mining, 11, 21, 24, 34

mitochondria, 291

Mitsuku, 317

Mohali, India, 99

moist shaded zones, 79

Mojave Desert, 22, 106

Mongolia, 132

monkeys, 146, 267

monk parakeets, 131

monkshoods, 125

monsoon season, 51, 53

Montaigne, Michel de, 63

Montana, 117

Mooallem, Jon, 139–40

moon, 306

Moorea, 158

moor frogs, 124

moose, 132

Moscow, 78

MOSE Project, 50

mosquitoes, 302

Motherwell, Robert, 218

Motley Fool, 235

multiple sclerosis, 301

Mumbai, 78

musk oxen, 132

mussels, 58, 60, 66, 78

mussel tissue, 91

Muybridge, Eadweard, 191

Nakamura, Makoto, 238

Naki’o, 256

Namibia, 180–81

nanobots, 181

Nano Impacts Intellectual Community, 183

nanoparticles, 182–83

nanotechnology, 179–87

nanotubes, 179

NASA, 204, 235, 305, 314

Nasheed, Mohamed, 76

National Academy of Science, 266–67