Environmental Issue Articles

• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Storms
  Weather
  Geography
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Great Hurricane of 1780

  The Great Hurricane of 1780 is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time. About 22,000 people died when the storm pounded Barbados, Martinique, and Sint Eustatius in the Lesser ... > more
• Forest
  Exotic Species
  Rainforests
  Acid Rain
  Ecology
  Wildfires
   
  

  Petrified wood

  Petrified wood is a type of fossil: it exists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the original ... > more
• Marine Biology
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Fish
  Invasive Species
  Sea Life
   
  

  Tide pool

  Tide pools (also tidal pools or rock pools) are rocky pools by the ocean that are filled with seawater. Tide pools can either be small and shallow or large and deep. The small ones are usually found ... > more
• Earthquakes
  Natural Disasters
  Tsunamis
  Construction
  Sports Science
  Physics
   

  Richter magnitude scale

  The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating ... > more
• Tornadoes
  Severe Weather
  Climate
  Weather
  Natural Disasters
  Storms
   
  

  Super Outbreak

  The Super Outbreak (sometimes called Jumbo Outbreak) is the largest tornado outbreak on ... > more
• Mating and Breeding
  New Species
  Extinction
  Life Sciences
  Wild Animals
  Agriculture and Food
   
  

  Rotifer

  The rotifers make up a phylum of microscopic, and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. There are a variety of different shapes of rotifer. There is a well-developed cuticle which may be thick ... > more
• Geology
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Earth Science
  Earthquakes
  Natural Disasters
  Climate
   
  

  Feldspar

  Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals which make up as much as 60% of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive rocks, and they can also ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Invasive Species
  Exotic Species
  Animals
  Soil Types
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Japanese beetle

  The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) is a beetle about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide (smaller in Canada), with shiny copper-colored elytra and a shiny green top of the thorax ... > more
• Genetically Modified
  Biotechnology
  Genes
  Biochemistry Research
  Gene Therapy
  Genetics
   
  

  Genetically modified organism

  A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology is ... > more
• Gynecology
  Fungus
  Microbiology
  Beer and Wine
  Genetics
  Geochemistry
   
  

  Yeast

  Yeasts constitute a group of single-celled (unicellular) fungi, a few species of which are commonly used to leaven bread, ferment alcoholic beverages, and even drive experimental fuel cells. Most ... > more

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