Visualizing Environmental Science

Index 487

Nanomaterials, 410, 410f

Nanotechnology, 410

Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii, 218f

Narrow-spectrum pesticides, 364

Nashville, Tennessee, 135t

National Appliance Energy Conservation

Act (NAECA), 459

National conservation strategy, 392

National Council for Science and the En-

vironment, 58

National emission limitations, 267

National Environmental Education Act

(1990), 58

National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA, 1970), 59, 60

National forests, 332

National income accounts, 63–65

National marine sanctuaries, 292, 292f

National monuments, 52–54, 60

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-

ministration (NOAA), 292

National parks, 52–54, 60, 320, 322f,

336–338

National Park Service (NPS), 53, 336

National Wilderness Preservation System

(NWPS), 60, 61, 338, 339, 339f, 387

National Wildlife Refuge System, 387

Natural capital, 62, 63, 63f, 302

Natural gas, 423–430

environmental impacts of, 428–430

global supply of, 426f–427f, 428

reserves of, 425–428

Natural increase, 161

Natural selection, 148–150

Nebraska, 179f

Negev Desert, Israel, 257f

Nekton, 142, 282

Nelson, Gaylord, 55

Neritic province, 278, 279f, 281, 282f

Net domestic product (NDP), 63

Netherlands, 37f

Net primary productivity (NPP), 105, 105t

Nevada

Reno, 139t

Yucca Mountain, 22, 437, 437f

New Hampshire, 237

New Haven, Connecticut, 442, 442f–443f

New Mexico

Las Conchas fire, 154f

Santa Fe, 445f

thunderstorm in, 193f

New Orleans, Louisiana, 23, 23f

New York City

Battery Park City, 37f

Hearst Tower, 463, 463f

South Bronx, 90f

Times Square, 9f

New York State

Adirondack Mountains, 237, 237f

Catskill Mountains, 260f

Cornell University, 17f

Love Canal, 409, 409f

M
Maathai, Wangari, 56, 56f
MacArthur, Robert, 115
McKinley, William, 52
Madagascar, 381f
Madidi National Park, Bolivia, 342f
Magma, 299, 301f
Magnuson Fishery Conservation Act, 291
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act, 291
Malaria, 227
Malaysia, 331f
Maldives, 226f, 228f
Mali, 7f, 334f
Malignant melanoma, 233
Malthus, Thomas, 165
Man and Nature (Marsh), 52
Manchuria, China, 190
Manganese nodules, 289, 290
Mangrove forests, 146–147, 146f
Manhattan, New York City, 463, 463f
Manila, Philippines, 43f
Marginal cost, 66
Marginal cost of pollution, 66, 66f
Marginal cost of pollution abatement, 66,
66f
Mariculture, 287
Marine pollution, 284, 287–289
Marine snow, 283
Marsh, George Perkins, 52
Marshes
freshwater, 142, 145
salt, 146, 146f, 147
Massachusetts, 450
Mass burn incinerators, 402–403, 403f
Mass extinction, 378
Matter, cycles of. See Biogeochemical
cycles
Mauritania, 251
Maximum containment level, 266
Maximum population growth, 161, 162
Mayan Palace (Palenque, Chiapas,
Mexico), 234f
Mediterranean climates, 137
Megacities, 184
Meltdown, 434
Merbold, Ulf, 192
Mesosphere, 193f
Messel Pit, Germany, 150f
Metals, 302, 405, 406
Metamorphic rocks, 301, 301f
Methanol, 450
Mexico
Colorado River Delta, 250f
drought, 251
Mayan Palace at Palenque (Chiapas),
234f
sustainable forestry in, 326
typical family from, 6f
Yaqui Indian pesticide exposure, 72
Mexico City, Mexico, 43, 251
Microcredit, 180

Microirrigation, 256, 257f

Micronesia, 146f

Minerals, 301–308, 303f

“conflict,” 317

economic impact of mining, 302, 304

environmental implications of mining,

306–308

extraction of, 304–305, 305f

nonfuel, 298t

offshore extraction of, 289, 290

processing of, 305, 305f

in soil, 309

in soil nutrient cycling, 312

Mining, 304–305, 305f

coal, 422

economic impact of, 302, 304

environmental impacts of, 306–308

types of, 304f

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 413f

Minnesota

Minneapolis, 413f

Taylors Falls, 32f

Mitigation

of climate change, 41–43, 229

defined, 229

Mixed forest, 130f

Moderately developed countries (MDCs),

6, 170

Modern synthesis, 148

Modular incinerators, 403

Molecular biology, 151f

Moment magnitude scale, 300

Monocultures, 325, 354, 364

Montreal Protocol, 233

Mosquitos, 80

Mountaintop removal (coal), 422

Mount Hua, China, 203, 203f

Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, 423f

Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, 199f, 225f,

299

Muir Glacier, Alaska, 216, 216f–217f

Muir, John, 52–53, 52f

Multicropping, 40, 41

Municipal sewage treatment, 265–266,

265f

Municipal solid waste, 398, 399, 399f, 400f

composition of, 399f

disposal of, 400f

reuse/recycling/recovery of, 61

Municipal water supplies

drinking water, 264–265, 264f

reducing waste in, 256

Murmansk, Russia, 438, 438f

Mutation, 148, 150

Mutualism, 116, 117f

Myanmar (Burma), 392f

Myers, Norman, 380

N

Naess, Arne, 32, 33

Nairobi, Kenya, 185f