The World Without Us

Rothamsted Research, 152–53, 153–57

See also

soil

Ford, Henry, 2

Foreman, Dave, 271

forests

Bialowieza Puszcza (Poland/Belarus), 9–10, 10, 11, 12–13, 13–14, 21, 217

Chernobyl, 215

Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA), 148–49

Hemlock Forest (New York Botanical Garden), 28–30, 32

slash-and-burn, 12, 167–68, 227

Foster, David, 148–50

Freon

and the ozone, 204–5

Friedlander, Alan, 260–61, 263

funeral industry, 237–38

funerals

coffins and caskets, 237, 238

desiccation, 238

eco-burialists, 237

embalming, 236–37

Future Evolution (Ward), 232

Gaia hypothesis, 168, 271

Galapagos islands, 46, 200

Galveston, 135

without humans, 143–44

Galveston Island, 143–44

garbage. See

trash and garbage

garbage landfills, 37–38

Garbage Project, 119

Gaudi, Antoni, 19

George Washington Bridge (NJ/NY), 33, 35

Giant ground sloth (Megatherium americanum), 62, 62

Gilbert, John Henry, 152–53, 162

Glenn, John, 16

global warming, 3, 41–42, 171

and coral reefs, 265

methane gas and, 220–21

See also

ozone

GMOs (genetically modified organisms), 160–62

Gombe National Park, 46, 49–52

Gombe Stream, 45–47, 49–52

Goodall, Jane, 49

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, 131, 132

Goodyear, Charles, 130–31

Goring, Hermann, 10

granite, durability of, 19

Great African Rift Valley, 42, 46

great auks, 192

Great Britain

Chunnel, 171–72, 172

Dartmoor, 166–67

first humans, 150

Garbage Project, 119

land bridge, 150–51, 166–67

Rothamsted Manor, 151, 151–53, 153–57, 158

Romnnsin, 150, 158

shoreline, rubbish along, 113–14

slash-and-burn, 12, 167–68

without humans, 165–66, 166–67, 171–72, 172

Great Wall of China, 173–75

Greek Republic of Cyprus, 96

Green Revolution, 164–65

Guam, 200

Gulf of Mexico, 142, 160

salt dome storage caverns, 133

Gulyaz, Murat Ertugrul, 108–9

Gura waterfall (Kenya), 71

H.M.S. Beagle, 112

Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey), 102–5

Hanford Nuclear Reservation (WA), 206

Hardie planks

deterioration of, 17

Hardy, Alistair, 114–15

Harpenden (U.K.), 150–51

Rothamsted Manor, 151, 151–53, 153–57

Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA), 148–49

Hawaii, 200

Hawkins, David, 223

Haynes, Vance, 63–64

HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons), 204–5

heavy metals, 221

and plant life, 29, 31, 158, 159

Hemlock Forest (New York Botanical Garden), 28–30, 32

Bronx squirrels and, 29

High Line (elevated railroad bed, NYC), 27

high-tension power lines

danger to birds, 193–94

Hilty, Steve, 198–200

Himmelstein, Paul, 247–48

Hopi people, 120

horse latitudes (North Pacific Subtropical Gyre), 121, 122, 123–24

horses (Equus)

devolving, Przewalski’s, 190

reintroduction of in America, 71