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• Nuclear Energy
  Weapons Technology
  Energy and the Environment
  Mining
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and Resources
   
  

  Uranium

  Uranium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. Heavy, silvery-white, toxic, metallic, naturally radioactive, pyrophoric, and teratogenic uranium ... > more
• Mining
  Energy and Resources
  Environmental Science
  Engineering
  Civil Engineering
  Textiles and Clothing
   
  

  Mining

  Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
  Water
  Oceanography
  Wildfires
  Ecosystems
   
  

  Ocean surface wave

  Ocean surface waves are surface waves that occur at the surface of an ocean. They usually result from distant winds or geologic effects and may travel thousands of miles before striking land. They ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and Resources
  Environmental Science
  Fuel Cells
  Sustainability
   
  

  Liquid nitrogen economy

  A liquid nitrogen economy is a hypothetical proposal for a future economy in which the primary form of energy storage and transport is liquid nitrogen. It is proposed as an alternative to liquid ... > more
• Alternative Fuels
  Energy and the Environment
  Energy and Resources
  Renewable Energy
  Fuel Cells
  Energy Technology
   
  

  Ethanol fuel

  The use of ethanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long-term ... > more
• Apes
  Mammals
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Animals
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Gorilla

  The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies. Its DNA ... > more
• Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Sports Science
  Healthy Aging
  Nuclear Energy
  Sports Medicine
   
  

  Chernobyl disaster

  The Chernobyl disaster was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m., consisting of an explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the ... > more
• Soil Types
  Organic
  Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
  Agriculture and Food
  Geography
   
  

  Earthworm

  Earthworm is the common name for the larger members of the Oligochaeta (which is either a class or subclass depending on the author) in the phylum Annelida. Earthworms travel underground by the means ... > more
• Global Warming
  Water
  Geography
  Oceanography
  Climate
  Ice Ages
   
  

  Iceberg

  An iceberg is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. Since the density of pure water ice is ca. 920 kg/m3, and that of sea ... > more
• Ice Ages
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
  Climate
  Snow and Avalanches
  Geography
   
  

  Little Ice Age

  The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling lasting approximately from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries, although there is no generally agreed start or end date: some confine the period to ... > more

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