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• Floods
  Natural Disasters
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Landslides
  Geography
   
  

  Flood

  A flood is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and ... > more
• Geography
  Tundra
  Mammals
  Wild Animals
  Nature
  Animals
   
  

  Reindeer

  The reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer. About 1 million live in Alaska, and a comparable number live in northern Canada. There are an ... > more
• Snow and Avalanches
  Storms
  Severe Weather
  Global Warming
  Water
  Geography
   
  

  Snow

  Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a ... > more
• Acid Rain
  Landslides
  Ecology
  Environmental Issues
  Air Pollution
  Geochemistry
   

  Humus

  Humus is a complex organic substance resulting from the breakdown of plant material in a process called humification. This process can occur naturally in soil, or in the production of compost. Humus ... > more
• Global Warming
  Ice Ages
  Climate
  Geography
  Oceanography
  Snow and Avalanches
   
  

  Ice sheet

  An Ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers (19,305 square miles). The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland; ... > more
• Ecology
  Agriculture and Food
  Sustainability
  Soil Types
  Ecology Research
  Nature
   

  Agroecology

  Agroecology is the science of applying ecological concepts and principles to the design, development, and management of sustainable agricultural systems. Agroecology is the science of sustainable ... > more
• Geography
  Global Warming
  Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Ice Ages
  Climate
   
  

  Antarctica

  Antarctica is the continent at the extreme southern latitudes of the Earth, containing the South Pole. It is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and divided in two by the Transantarctic ... > more
• Air Quality
  Fossil Fuels
  Air Pollution
  Thermodynamics
  Energy and the Environment
  Alternative Fuels
   
  

  Combustion

  Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames. ... > more
• Tornadoes
  Severe Weather
  Climate
  Natural Disasters
  Weather
  Storms
   
  

  May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence

  The May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence in the United States was a series of tornado outbreaks that occurred from May 3 to May 11, 2003. There were 401 tornado reports in 19 states, 1,587 reports of ... > more
• Tornadoes
  Severe Weather
  Storms
  Climate
  Weather
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Tornado

  A tornado is a violently spinning column of air in contact with both a cumiliform cloud base and the surface. A tornado is typically shaped like a funnel with the narrow end on the ground. Tornadoes ... > more

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