Air

The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, retained by Earth's gravity, surrounding the planet Earth and forming its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing for liquid water to exist on the Earth's surface, absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation, warming the surface through heat retention (greenhouse effect), and reducing temperature extremes between day and night (the diurnal temperature variation). By volume, dry air contains 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. Air also contains a variable amount of water vapor, …

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Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

[ECCC] (2022). 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan: Clean Air, Strong Economy. Government of Canada. <https://www


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

Background The plurilateral track to discuss e-commerce rules was launched at the Eleventh Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires Eleventh Ministerial Conference, Buenos Aires. https://docs.wto.org/ dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?


DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

and were wide open to let in as much air as possible. Even the air in the room smelled different. I was


Mackenzie Institute · 15 July 2024 English

J-31B and J-20 fighters will boost carrier aviation, long-range maritime strike and deep penetration capabilities...


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

like that. John Stuart Mill waves his hands in the air like he’s the fourth in The Ronettes. Asks the University close. You lost her to IV bags and chemotherapy. Air comes. First. Cells divide. Second. Cells malignant murder of my body, there is pain and pressure and air pushing from lungs a feeling of the husband who tells me, white teeth exposed to the winter night air. Blackness of parking lots and ice-covered pavement pieces. Jump from monkey bars, arcing through the air with pointed ballerina feet and pink spandex shorts


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

lifts these lines from his book Night & Ox into the air, projecting them as sound to the audience – both


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

phenomenon modified by technology, the coming of air travel brought entirely new dangers. Before 9 December


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

These are texts or pieces of text that, as if disseminated through rumourological airs, remain volatile, hence the name Avital


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

25 FLIGHTlimited best to circulate the stifling air, the collective body heat of the congregation added organized. To our collective delight, it was also air-conditioned, which was wonderful, and the first time a little longer in the school playground as the air got warmer and the grass re- appeared. And we often did sneak out from time to time to enjoy the warm air and open spaces. At the same time, we were careful


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

Whenever they can, they try to get above deck for air, but when the weather is heavy, which is often,


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