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• Floods
  Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Water
  Natural Disasters
  Weather
   
  

  Mid-Atlantic United States flood of 2006

  The Eastern United States flooding of June 2006 is a significant flooding event in much of Mid-Atlantic region of the eastern United States. The flooding was very widespread, affecting numerous ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Storms
  Weather
  Tornadoes
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Galveston Hurricane of 1900

  The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
  Earth Science
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Geology
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
   
  

  Tide

  Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the Earth. Tides cause changes in the depth of the sea, and also produce ... > more
• Tornadoes
  Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Natural Disasters
  Storms
  Climate
   
  

  Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence

  The Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence was a tornado outbreak sequence during the days leading up to Easter and continued into the first week after Easter. It was the third major outbreak of ... > more
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  Genetically Modified
  Biotechnology
  Genes
  Biochemistry Research
  Gene Therapy
   
  

  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
• Fossils
  Geology
  Origin of Life
  Extinction
  Geography
  Environmental Policy
   

  Paleozoic

  The Paleozoic Era is a major division of the geologic timescale, one of four geologic eras. The Paleozoic includes six geologic periods; from oldest to youngest -- the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, ... > more
• Oceanography
  Water
  Floods
  Geography
  Global Warming
  Desert
   
  

  Sediment

  Sediment is any particulate matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bed or bottom of a body of water or other liquid. ... > more
• Nature
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  New Species
  Exotic Species
  Extinction
   
  

  Ecological niche

  In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem. More formally, the niche includes how a population responds to the abundance of its ... > more
• Volcanoes
  Global Warming
  Severe Weather
  Weather
  Geography
  Storms
   

  Year Without a Summer

  The Year Without a Summer, also known as the Poverty Year and Eighteen hundred and froze to death, was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the ... > more
• Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  Climate
  Oceanography
  Snow and Avalanches
  Severe Weather
   
  

  Larsen Ice Shelf

  The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of ... > more

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