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Open Atmospheric Science Journal

Overpeck, Jonathan

Oxford University

ozone layer; boundary

Pachauri, Rajendra

Pakistan

Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)

palm-oil companies

Papua New Guinea

Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, U.K.

PCBs

Peacock, Jim

peak oil

Permian Period

pesticides

Petrovich, Leonid

photosynthesis

Pielke Jr., Roger

Pinatubo eruption, 1991

planetary boundaries, concept of; expert group; summary of; what about population?; do not deal with resource constraints

plastics

Pliocene epoch

polar bear

pollution see under individual pollutant name population, human

Porritt, Jonathan

Pretty, Jules

Prosperity Without Growth (Jackson)

pumped storage reservoirs

Quaternary Megafaunal Extinction

rain forest

Rasmussen, Lars Lokke

Rational Optimist, The (Ridley)

“REREACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), 2007

Reagan, Ronald

RealClimate blog

“rebel organisms”

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)

renewables

“rewilding”

Ricardo, David

Ridley, Matt

Rio Grande

rivers: dams and reservoirs on; drying of; eutrophication; nitrogen in; ecological zones; agricultural use of water from; “gender benders” in; toxics in; see also under individual dam or reservoir name

Roberts, Callum

Rockström, Professor Johan

Rowland, F. Sherwood (Sherry)

Royal Academy of Engineering

Royal Society

Rozzi, Fernando

RSPB

Rudd, Kevin

runoff

Sahara

Sahel, Africa

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Saudi Arabia

Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim

Science

sea: depletion of animals in; levels see also ocean acidification

Serreze, Mark

Severn Estuary tidal barrage

ship-emitted pollutants

Siberia

Sierra Club

Silent Spring (Carson)

Sites of Special Scientific Interest

Six Degrees (Lynas)

Sky, Jasper

Smil, Vaclav

Snyder, Peter

solar power

solar radiation

soot particle

“species-area relationship”

Stanford University

State of the Air 2010 report (American Lung Association)

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, 2006

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2001

Stockholm Resilience Centre

stoves, dirty cooking

Sukhdev, Pavan

sulfur emissions

Sumatra

“supergrid”

Sustainable Development Commission

“sustainable development” schemes

Sustainable Rivers Project

Suzlon

synthetic biology

Syr Darya

“Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?”

Tea Party

terra preta

Thames, River

The New Home Front report, 2011

Three Gorges Dam, China

Three Mile Island

tiger

Tindale, Stephen

toxics; pesticides; plastics; mercury; DDT; Indian vulture and; “gender benders”; accumulate in food chain; accumulate in polar regions; human risk; “enigmatic decline”; boundary/regulation; nuclear pollution; PCBs; atrazine

transgenic crops

Trenberth, Kevin

Triassic period

“trophic cascade”

Udall, Bradley

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom: wind power in; Climate Change Act; restored wildflower meadows; organic farming in; genetically engineered crops in; land use in; Severn Estuary tidal barrage; VAT rise in; radon in; CFCs in; carbon dioxide emissions

United Nations; Food and Agriculture Organization; Framework Convention on Climate Change; Millennium Development Goals; Population Fund; Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)

United States: solar power; agricultural fertilizer, dependence on; meat consumption; ethanol production; freshwater species extinction; freshwater ecological restoration; seasonality of runoff; nuclear power in; climate change deniers in; CFC regulation and; Kyoto Protocol and; Copenhagen summit, role in; clean energy and

urbanization

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Uzbekistan

valueing natural assets

VAT, adding half a percent to

vehicles: efficiency of: electric; diesel; rate of ownership

Venter, J. Craig

Vestas

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, 1985

Vietnam

Volga, river

Watt, James

Wen Jiabao

West