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• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
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  Solar Energy
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  Power station

  A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. At the centre of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy into ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Storms
  Weather
  Geography
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Hurricane Camille

  Hurricane Camille was a Category 5 hurricane that struck the United States at peak intensity near the mouth of the Mississippi River on the night of August 17 during the 1969 Atlantic hurricane ... > more
• Hazardous Waste
  Petroleum
  Pollution
  Water
  Oil Spills
  Energy and the Environment
   
  

  Methyl tert-butyl ether

  MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 ... > more
• Sports Science
  Materials Science
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
   
  

  Polytetrafluoroethylene

  Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a fluoropolymer discovered by Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994) of DuPont in 1938. It was introduced as a commercial product in 1946 and (in an example of a ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Food Additives
  Sports Science
  Sports Medicine
  Chemistry
   
  

  Chlorine

  Chlorine is the chemical element with atomic number 17 and symbol Cl. It is a halogen, found in the periodic table in group 17. As the chloride ion, which is part of common salt and other compounds, ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policy
  Weather
  Ice Ages
   

  IPCC Third Assessment Report

  The IPCC Third Assessment Report is a product of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is based in Geneva Switzerland, and was established in 1988 by two United Nations organisations, ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Accident and Trauma
  Natural Disasters
  Sports Medicine
  Weather
   
  

  Hurricane Katrina

  Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest ... > more
• Caving
  Oceanography
  Archaeology
  Ancient Civilizations
  Water
  Evolution
   
  

  Stalagmite

  A stalagmite is a type of speleothem that rises from the floor of a limestone cave due to the dripping of mineralized solutions and the deposition of calcium carbonate. The corresponding formation ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Weather
  Oil Spills
  Climate
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes

  This is a list of all Atlantic hurricanes that have reached Category 5, the highest classification of tropical cyclone intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Nature of Water
  Quantum Physics
  Natural Disasters
  Sports Science
  Albert Einstein
   

  Breaking wave

  In physics, a breaking wave is a wave whose amplitude reaches a critical level at which some process can suddenly start to occur that causes large amounts of wave energy to be dissipated. At this ... > more

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