The World Without Us

PAHs (polyaromatic hydrocarbons), 156, 165, 267

PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), 125–26, 156, 159, 267

trash and garbage

Garbage Project (Great Britain), 119

Hopi Indian Reservation, 120

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

landfills, 119–20

newspapers as, 119–20

tires, 130–31

tree-of-heaven.

See Chinese ailanthus tree

trees

Bialowieza, 10, 11, 12–13, 13–14, 247

Chinese tallow tree, 140–41, 143–44

deforestation, 42

Harvard Forest, 148–49

nonnative invaders and, 29–30

resurgence of, 27–28

Rothamsted Research, 162–65

Tsavo (Kenya)

Mzima Springs, 77

and the slave trade, 77–78

tsetse flies, 77

Waata bushman and, 77

as a wildlife refuge 78

World War I and, 77–78

Tsavo River, 77

tsetse flies, 77

Tumamoc Hill, 55, 57, 65

Turkey

archeological discoveries, 106, 107, 108–9

Cappadocia, 106, 108–9, 109–10

construction standards in, 103–5

earthquakes, 102–5

See also

Ankara;

Cappadocia;

Cyprus;

Istanbul

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 96

Twilight of the Mammoths (Martin), 66–67

U.S. Census Bureau, 197–98

U.S. Department of Energy, 209

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 194, 258

U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 123

Ukraine

fallout from Chernobyl, 216

ultraviolet rays, 203–4

Ulucan, Hikmet, 98, 98–99, 99–100

UNESCO, 2

Union of Concerned Scientists, 161

University of Arizona, 55

University of Virginia, 55

uranium, 201–2

natural decay, 202–3

and X-rays, 202–3

uranium-235

half-life, 205

uranium-238 (U-238)

half-life, 205

storage of, 206–8

surplus, 205–6

Valero, 135

Valero Energy Corporation and, 136

Varosha (Cyprus), 91–92, 92–93

abandoned hotels, 91–92, 93–95, 94

without humans, 96–97

Vaux, Calvert, 22, 30

VHEMT (Voluntary Human Extinction Movement), 241–43

Vietnam

Agent Orange and, 156, 183

vinyl

deterioration of, 17

Volk, Tyler, 39–40, 41

von Leibig, Justus, 151–52, 153

Von Braun, Wernher, 16

Voyager spacecrafts, 248–51, 252, 254

Golden Record messages on, 249–51, 251

Waata bushman, 77

war

Agent Orange and Vietnam, 156, 183

Contra War (Nicaragua), 183

and ecosystems, 183

See also,

Korea

Ward, Peter, 231–32

Washington, George, 181

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) (NM), 206–8, 208–9

West Virginia

mountaintop removal, 221–23, 222

Western, David, 78–82, 82, 271

White Holly

research vessel, 255–58, 259–61

Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare

(Colinvaux), 257

Wilbert Funeral Services, 238

Wildlife Conservation Society, 22