Lake Alajuela (Panama), 177
Lake Baikal (Siberia), 42
Lake Gatun (Panama), 176, 177
dam, 179–80
Lake Tanganyika (East Africa), 42–43, 51
Gombe Stream, 45–47
Lake Turkana (Kenya/Ethiopia), 70
landfills
newspapers in, 119–20
tires, 130–31
plastic particles; trash and garbage
Lapland longspur, 193–94
Lapta (Cyprus), 98
Lawes, John Bennet, 151, 151–53, 154, 162
lead
in the ecosystem, 158–59
Leakey, Louis, 44, 49, 58, 68
Leakey, Mary, 44, 68
Lehmann, Johannes, 167–68
Lenni Lenape people, 23, 32, 33
Leslie, John, 241
Lewis, Meriwether, 54
Li-Tai-Po, ix
Library of Alexandria (Egypt), 248
lice
dependency on humans, 235
Lincoln, Abraham, 181
Line Islands, 258–59, 264–65
as munition dump, 258–59
lions
and slavery, 77
Litoptern
Lomberg, Jon, 248–51, 252, 269
London, 150
without humans, 165–66
Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM), 206–7
Lovelock, James, 168, 271
Maasai people, 43, 79–81
and AIDS, 85–86
and cattle, 82–83, 84–86
McElroy, C. J., 66
McGrath, Steven, 157–59, 159
Mahler, Gustav, ix
Maine
cultivation, effects of, 146–47
stone walls, 146
Mannahatta Project, 22–24, 30, 32–33
Marathon, 135
Marburg virus, 239–40
Marconi, Guglielmo, 252, 254
Martin, Paul, 55–58, 58–59, 61, 63–64, 65–67, 80–81, 271
Mastodons, 56
Mathews, Mike, 236–37
Mau Mau Rebellion, 72–73
Mayan civilization, 223–24, 226, 227–28, 228–29
agriculture, 227
archaeological excavations, 224, 227
burials, 227
collapse of, 224–25, 228
cruelty of, 226
vegetation overrunning, 225, 226
wealth, 227
Mehringer, Peter, 65
Mellaart, James, 106
meltdowns, 212–13, 213–14, 214–16
mercury
plants reengineered to absorb, 159
Meso-Americans
European diseases and, 61
Mesozoic Era, 230–31
metal
wiring and plumbing, remains of, 38
moa
extinction of, 63, 191
moa-nalo
extinction of, 192
Molina, Mario, 204
monkeys
red-tailed and blue monkeys, 45–46
primates
Monte Verde (Chile), 60
Moore, Charles, 121, 123, 123–24, 124, 125
Moser, Edda, 251
mosquitoes
flourishing without humans, 129–30
Mount Hasan Dag (Turkey), 106–7
Mount Kenya (Kanya), 72, 73
Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), 79
Mount Rushmore (SD), 181–82
mountains
erosion of, 120–21
mountaintop removal for coal mining, 221–23, 222
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 251
Munir, Metin, 96–97
