Atmosphere

An atmosphere (from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmos), meaning 'vapour', and σφαῖρα (sphaira), meaning 'ball' or 'sphere') is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body. An atmosphere is more likely to be retained if the gravity it is subject to is high and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. The atmosphere of Earth is composed of nitrogen (about 78%), oxygen (about 21%), argon (about 0.9%), carbon dioxide (0.03%) and other gases in trace amounts. Oxygen is used by most organisms …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

long shad- ows on each other, and created an atmosphere of support for an integrative imagination” (2014


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Although he had a short career, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in the span of seventeen years. Convinced that “style must live,” he focused …

calm, tree-lined street. Its site transmits an atmosphere that I find common to Weimar landmarks: pure always loose the wonderful form, the particular atmosphere of Antiquity, we forget the nostalgic impulse


DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 May 2024 English

NEW EDITION OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERTravel personality Robin Esrock explores the most unique experiences in British Columbia and Alberta in this inspiring, expanded guide from the bestselling Bucket List series.Having …

are open!” This initiates a school bell–like atmosphere as everyone grabs their gear and races off to


CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English

Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those ‘stabs of self’ that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. …

pop culture imagined for you: frigates in the atmosphere gunning through methane and sulphur, the chemical pixelated on the far horizon: those bits I own as atmosphere to my core. He continues to / not see me


CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English

THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING" The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what …

secures the town’s inhabitants pure air, as the atmosphere is not contaminated with coal smoke and other


NSP: New Society Publishers · 7 May 2024 English

Events can educate, inspire, and connect, but all too often they escalate into resource-intensive glorifications of excess and exclusivity. How We Gather Matters provides insight and practical tools to unleash …

releas- ing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, exacerbating the climate emergency. New Approach tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from our atmosphere and 100 tonnes of waste from landfills. In the slowly releasing harmful methane gases into the atmosphere. Events themselves gen- erate significant greenhouse


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 6 May 2024 English

An IGF report outlining technical aspects of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), examining existing governance frameworks and providing recommendations for policy-makers to improve awareness, education, safety, and regulation of …

rocks. Mercury emissions Mercury emitted into the atmosphere. Mercury-free gold Gold produced without the (preventing the loss of mercury vapour into the atmosphere) during the process of burning a mercury-gold children. The mercury vapours emitted into the atmosphere often exceed the limit recommended by the World Vaporized mercury can travel quickly through the atmosphere and can 13 ASGM Tailings Management and Reprocessing and should provide as much insulation from the atmosphere as possible. Proper labelling is essential to


CLD: Centre for Law and Democracy · 3 May 2024 English

JOINT DECLARATION ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, …

of expression or take measures which create an atmosphere of fear among journalists or environmental or


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English

A powerful debut about the lives of women and girls caught in the orbit of the military. Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military …

books and vintage cameras create a cozy, clichéd atmosphere. The small stage glows beneath ceiling spotlights


NSP: New Society Publishers · 30 April 2024 English

56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway Climate explores the …

have been biological: taking CO2 out of the atmosphere and fixing it as carbon in leaves, stems, and those same gases that are already present in the atmosphere. The 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption is the most million tonnes of water was released into the atmosphere. That was a tiny amount compared with the 16 with the volumes of those gases already in the atmosphere. The gas volumes are represented as spheres impact. Volcanic H2O doesn’t remain long in the atmosphere either—just a few days—and so has almost no


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