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  Hurricane preparedness for New Orleans

  Hurricane and flood preparedness in New Orleans has been an issue since the city's early settlement because of the city's location. Much of New Orleans was built on a delta marsh and sits below sea ... > more
• Birds
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  Bird

  Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge ... > more
• Atmosphere
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  Planetary boundary layer

  The planetary boundary layer (PBL) is also known as the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). It is the lowest part of the atmosphere and its behavior is directly influenced by its contact with the ... > more
• Oil Spills
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  Gulf of Mexico

  The Gulf of Mexico is a major body of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America. Because of the ever increasing amount of nitrogen and phosphates dissolved in the waters of the Gulf of ... > more
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  Computer simulation

  A computer simulation or a computer model is a computer program that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical ... > more
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  List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes

  This is a list of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes. A Category 5 hurricane, on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is the most catastrophic hurricane that can form. They are rare in the eastern Pacific ... > more
• Fish
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  Fish

  Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in ... > more
• Global Warming
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  Sequence stratigraphy

  Sequence stratigraphy is a relatively new branch of geology that attempts to link prehistoric sea-level changes to sedimentary deposits. The 'sequence' part of the name refers to cyclic sedimentary ... > more
• Ozone Holes
  Environmental Issues
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  Ozone depletion

  Ozone depletion describes the observed loss of ozone in the stratosphere over the past 50 years. It encompasses both a steady thinning of the ozone layer at mid-latitudes and its catastrophic ... > more
• Forensics
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  Triglycerides
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  Biosensor

  A biosensor is a device for the detection of an analyte that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector ... > more

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