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• Hurricanes and Cyclones
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  List of major natural disasters in the United States

  This is a list of major natural disasters in the United ... > more
• Severe Weather
  Tornadoes
  Storms
  Weather
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
   
  

  Storm chasing

  Storm chasing is broadly defined as the intentional pursuit of a thunderstorm, regardless of motive. A person who storm chases is known as a storm chaser, or simply a chaser. While witnessing a ... > more
• Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Botany
  Cloning
  Genetically Modified
  Agriculture and Food
   

  Transgenic plants

  Transgenic plants are plants that have been genetically engineered, a breeding approach that uses recombinant DNA techniques to create plants with new characteristics.They are identified as a class ... > more
• Geography
  Forest
  Earthquakes
  Water
  Weather
  Global Warming
   
  

  Himalayas

  The Himalayas, also Himalaya, are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system which ... > more
• Forest
  Exotic Species
  Rainforests
  Acid Rain
  Ecology
  Wildfires
   
  

  Petrified wood

  Petrified wood is a type of fossil: it exists of fossil wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the original ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Weather
  Environmental Issues
  Ice Ages
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Climate

  The climate is the weather averaged over a long period of time. Weather is the combination of events in the atmosphere and climate is the overall accumulated weather in a certain location. Over ... > more
• Soil Types
  Water
  Agriculture and Food
  Environmental Issues
  Drought Research
  Drought
   
  

  Irrigation

  Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. The water source for irrigation may be a nearby or distant body of ... > more
• Geography
  Weather
  Severe Weather
  Climate
  Earth Science
  Global Warming
   
  

  Monsoon

  A monsoon is a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. The word is also used to label the season in which this wind blows from the southwest in India and adjacent areas that ... > more
• Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
  Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Trees
   
  

  Kudzu

  Kudzu is a climbing, woody or semi-woody, perennial vine capable of reaching heights of 20 - 30 m (66 - 98 ft) in trees, but also scrambles extensively over lower vegetation. Kudzu is sometimes ... > more
• Oceanography
  Floods
  Environmental Science
  Landslides
  Sustainability
  Geography
   
  

  Coastal management

  Coastal management or coastal defence is used throughout the world for many different purposes, but predominantly to reduce coastal erosion and ... > more

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