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• Fossils
  Environmental Policy
  Extinction
  Ice Ages
  Origin of Life
  Early Climate
   
  

  Cambrian

  The Cambrian is a major division of the geologic timescale that begins about 542 Ma (million years ago) at the end of the Proterozoic eon and ended about 488.3 Ma with the beginning of the Ordovician ... > more
• Geology
  Nature of Water
  Energy and Resources
  Sports Science
  Atmosphere
  Floods
   
  

  Sedimentary rock

  Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in four main ways: by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known as ... > 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
• Landslides
  Natural Disasters
  Volcanoes
  Snow and Avalanches
  Geology
  Earth Science
   
  

  Landslide

  A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes, and shallow debris ... > more
• Ozone Holes
  Air Quality
  Air Pollution
  Environmental Issues
  Pollution
  Atmosphere
   
  

  Tropospheric ozone

  Ozone (O3) is a key constituent of the troposphere. Photochemical and chemical reactions involving it drive many of the chemical processes that occur in the atmosphere by day and by night. At ... > more
• Weather
  Severe Weather
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Storms
  Global Warming
   
  

  Weather

  Weather is a term that encompasses phenomena in the atmosphere of a planet. The term is normally taken to mean the activity of these phenomena over short periods of time, usually no more than a few ... > more
• Nature
  Oceanography
  Ecology
  Marine Biology
  Earth Science
  Global Warming
   

  Ocean acidification

  Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by their uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Between 1751 and 2004 ... > more
• Earth Science
  Geology
  Earthquakes
  Environmental Issues
  Climate
  Oceanography
   
  

  Earth science

  Many scientists are now starting to use an approach known as Earth system science which treats the entire Earth as a system in its own right, which evolves as a result of positive and negative ... > more
• Oceanography
  Geography
  Earth Science
  Water
  Ecosystems
  Ecology
   
  

  Ocean

  Though generally recognized as several 'separate' oceans, these waters comprise one global, interconnected body of salt water often referred to as the World Ocean or global ocean. This concept of a ... > more
• Water
  Geography
  Ecosystems
  Global Warming
  Ecology
  Floods
   
  

  Lake

  A lake is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size surrounded entirely by land. A vast majority of lakes on Earth are fresh water, and most lie in the Northern Hemisphere at higher ... > more

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