sea grapes, 61
sea levels, 32, 41, 51
sea lions, 144, 147
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 175
sea squirt, 61
seaweed, 61
sediment, 31–32
sedum, 83, 87–88
self-awareness, 216–17, 219
self-cleaning clothes, 181
sensory overload, 197
Seoul, 192
sepsis, 183
Serengeti, 126
Seurat, Georges, 246
sex, biology of, 293–96
Shakespeare, William, 259
Shanghai, China, 192
sharks, 147
Shark Valley, 129, 315
sheep, 71, 267
Shelley, Mary, 212–13
shellfish, 60
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, 52
Shostak, Seth, 175
shrews, 115
shrikes, 74
Siberia, 161
Siju-Rewak Coridor, 124
silicon retinas, 13
silver, 182–83
Singapore, 78
singing, 93
Sinhyung Cho, 102
skin, 257
Skinner, B. F., 145
sky parks, 77–78
skyskrapers, 24
Smit, Johan, 104
Smith, Bren, 56–67
Smith, David, 291
Smithsonian, 235
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 145
snails, 61, 156, 157–60, 163
snowfall, 41
snow leopards, 164
social media, 190, 235
social pain, 177
Soda Cell, 100
solar power, 51–52, 83, 100, 105–7
solar water farming, 52
sonar, 316
Songdo, South Korea, 230
South Carolina, 46
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, 102
South Korea, 72
Space Exploration Vehicle, 235
Space Station, 16
space travel, 15–16
Spain, 78, 124
spas, 185
Speak, Memory (Nabokov), 218
Spears, Britney, 129–30
sperm, 160–61, 279
Spielberg, Steven, 142
spinach, 89
Spitsbergen, 154–55
squids, 164
squirrel monkeys, 131
squirrels, 126
Stahel, Walter R., 87
Stanley Park, 78
starlings, 153, 165–66
Star Trek, 232, 253, 260
Statue of Liberty, 59
steam engine, 34
Steel Pier, 47
stem cells, 13, 150
Stockholm, 96–97
Stoermer, Eugene, 313
stomata, 91
Stony Creek harbor, 56–57, 66–67
storks, 124
Strauss, Richard, 269
suburban sprawl, 116
succulents, 83
sugar, 239
Suharto, 313
sulfur, 99
Summit, Scott, 236–37
sustainability, popularity of, 108
Sustainability Revolution, The (Edwards), 88
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 154–55
Svensson, Tore, 101
Sweden, 96–97, 98–101, 106, 132
Swiss chard, 89, 90
Switzerland, 78, 132
swordfish, 65
sycamores, 111, 113
SyNAPSE, 256, 318
Taft, William Howard, 58
Tahiti, 159
Taiwan, 83
Taliban, 146
Tasmanian devils, 151, 164
taste, 211–12
Taylor, Robert, 89
technical nutrients, 87
technology, 10, 13–14
nature and, 188–200
Technology University, 104
Teitiota, Ioane, 49
Tel Aviv University, 293
telekenesis, 203
telephones, 171
telescopes, 171
televisions, 87, 191
temperate zones, 80
Tennessee, 46
termites, 92–93
Texas, 41
texting, 190
by plants, 205–7
Thailand, 79, 180
Thames Barrier, 50–51
theory of mind, 216–17, 218–19
Thimble Islands, 58
Thimble Island Salts, 62
“Thousand Dreams of Stellavista, The” (Ballard), 231
3D printing, 232–39, 244
Three Gorges Dam, 101
Thumb, Tom, 58
Thus Spake Zarathustra, 269–70
thyme, 90
Tiananmen Square, 271
tiger mosquitos, 132
time-rock, 32–33
titanium dioxide, 181
toads, 125
Tohoku, 46
Tokyo, 78
tomatoes, 89
Tom Jones (film), 294
Tonga, 158
tools, 171
human use of, 7, 9
orangutan use of, 5
tornadoes, 41
Toronto, Canada, 78
touch, 178
“Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The” (Aesop), 115
Toxoplasma gondii, 296–99
trains, 102
transparent aluminum, 34
tree lizards, 80
trees, 83
trilobites, 29–30
trumpeter swans, 135
tube worms, 37–38
TU Delft, 104, 105
tuna, 65
Tuvalu, 48–49
23andMe, 271
twins, 282
Twitter, 317
2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 269–70
Tybee Island Ocean Rescue, 65
typewriter, 191
typhoons, 46
Uganda, 72
United Kingdom, 83, 298
cities in, 72
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 99
United Nations Panel on Climate Change, 41–42
United States, 83
urban beekeeping, 88
urban eyes, 192
urbanization, 154
U.S. Hardiness Zone Map, 38
Vancouver, Canada, 78
Vawter, Zac, 254–55
vegetable gardens, urban, 74
Venice, Italy, 50
veronicas, 125
vertical farming, 74
in sea, see mariculture
vervet monkeys, 131
Viking, 220
Vikings, 42
violence, 286
Viridity Energy, 102
Virtual Dissection, 197
Virtual Interactive Presence in Augmented Reality, 261
viruses, 172, 289–90
vitamin D, 192
volcanic archipelagos, 157–58
voles, 115
Voronoff, Serge, 264
Voyager, 220
Wade, Chris, 157–67
Wageningen UR, 104
Wake Forest, 185
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, 75–76
walking, 259–60
walls, 92
walruses, 134
war, 141–48, 285
War Horse, 141–42
Warner, Sabrina, 47–48
Washington State University, 238
water lettuce, 132
water moccasins, 117–18
water purification, 74–75
water-purifying tea bags, 181
Watson, James, 274
waxbills, 79
Wells, H. G., 267–68
West, American, 165
West Africa, 151
West Nile virus, 134, 302
Weston, Edward, 25
West Virginia, 46
whale fins, 91
wheat, 71
white rhinoceros, 164
white stor
ks, 13
white-tailed deer, 119–21, 126, 129
white-tailed eagles, 124
Whitman, Walt, 184
Whole Earth Catalog, The (Brand), 150
Whole Earth Discipline, The (Brand), 150
wild boars, 124, 131
wildfires, 40–41, 46
wild fishing, 60
wildlife corridors, 83
Wild Ones (Mooallem), 139–40
Wilfrid Laurier University, 40
William the Conqueror, 190
Willis Tower, 254
Wilson, E. O., 10
wind power, 83, 92, 100, 102, 103–5
Windstalk, 103–4
“Wind Tunnel,” 102
wind turbines, 104–5
Win-Win Ecology (Rosenzweig), 74
Wizard of Oz, The (film), 146
Wolbachia, 302
wolves, 132
wombats, 164
women, invention and, 191
women’s rights, 191
wood, 106
woodpeckers, 125–26
woolly mammoths, 151
proposed repopulation of, 161–63
Wordsworth, William, 259
World War I, 142–44, 153
World War II, 60–61, 153, 273
writing, 11, 171, 191, 255
Wuppertal, Germany, 78
Xi, Zhiyong, 302
Yamanaka, Shinya, 150, 160
yellow fever, 302
Yellowstone National Park, 126, 132
Youth Climate Leaders Network, 65
Yup’ik Eskimos, 47–48
Zanjani, Esmail, 267
zebra mussels, 131
Zilber-Rosenberg, Ilana, 293
Zimmerman, Richard, 6
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