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• Sustainability
  Agriculture and Food
  Soil Types
  Organic
  Energy and the Environment
  Ecology
   

  Sustainable agriculture

  Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals: environmental stewardship, farm profitability, and prosperous farming communities. Sustainable agriculture refers to the ability of a farm to ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Geography
  Storms
  Tornadoes
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Hurricane Hugo

  Hurricane Hugo was a destructive Category 5 hurricane that struck Puerto Rico, St. Croix, South Carolina and North Carolina in September of the 1989 Atlantic hurricane season, killing at least 70 ... > more
• Apes
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Rainforests
  Healthy Aging
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Chimpanzee

  Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species in the genus Pan. The better known chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes, the Common Chimpanzee, living primarily in West, ... > more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Environmental Policy
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Science
  Energy and the Environment
   
  

  IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

  The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the fourth in a series of reports on climate change. Two of the three reports (Working groups I and II) have ... > more
• Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
  Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Seeds
  Nature
   
  

  Purple loosestrife

  Purple loosestrife is a semi-aquatic herbaceous plant belonging to the loosestrife family, Lythraceae, native to the wetlands of Eurasia. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, growing 1-2 m tall, ... > more
• Air Quality
  Air Pollution
  Pollution
  Petroleum
  Environmental Science
  Vehicles
   

  Automobile emissions control

  Automobile emissions control covers all the technologies that are employed to reduce the air pollution-causing emissions produced by ... > more
• Soil Types
  Organic
  Recycling and Waste
  Agriculture and Food
  Food
  Hazardous Waste
   
  

  Vermicompost

  Vermicompost (or Worm Compost) the process of using earthworms to breakdown kitchen and garden waste, to create a faster than normal composting. Compared to ordinary soil, the earthworm castings (the ... > more
• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fisheries
  Sea Life
  Geography
  Wild Animals
   
  

  Seahorse

  Hippocampus is a genus of fish known as Seahorses (family Syngnathidae). Seahorses range in size from 16 mm (the recently discovered Hippocampus denise) to 35 cm. They are notable for being one of ... > more
• Acid Rain
  Pollution
  Air Pollution
  Organic Chemistry
  Biochemistry
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Acid

  An acid (often represented by the generic formula HA) is traditionally considered any chemical compound that, when dissolved in water, gives a solution with a pH of less than 7.0. That approximates ... > more
• Severe Weather
  Weather
  Storms
  Floods
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Tornadoes
   
  

  Severe weather terminology (United States)

  This article describes severe weather terminology used by the U.S. National Weather Service. The National Weather Service has developed a multi-tier concept for forecasting all types of hazardous ... > more

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