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• Hurricanes and Cyclones
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  Galveston Hurricane of 1900

  The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. It had estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
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  Water
  Geography
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  Megatsunami

  Megatsunami (often hyphenated as mega-tsunami, also known as iminami or "wave of purification") is an informal term used by popular media and popular science to describe a very large tsunami-like ... > more
• Acid Rain
  Rainforests
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  Rain

  Rain is a form of precipitation, other forms of which include snow, sleet, hail, and dew. Rain plays a major role in the hydrologic cycle in which moisture from the oceans evaporates, condenses into ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
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  Hurricane Ivan

  Hurricane Ivan was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, the fourth major hurricane, and the strongest hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane ... > more
• Air Quality
  Air Pollution
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  Automobile emissions control

  Automobile emissions control covers all the technologies that are employed to reduce the air pollution-causing emissions produced by ... > more
• Acid Rain
  Food Additives
  Air Quality
  Dietary Supplements and Minerals
  Air Pollution
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Sulfur dioxide

  Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide, sulfurous anhydride or sulphurous anhydride) has the chemical formula SO2. The gas is irritating to the lungs and is frequently described as smelling of burning ... > more
• Recycling and Waste
  Hazardous Waste
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  Energy and the Environment
  Environmental Issues
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  Waste management

  Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local ... > more
• Earthquakes
  Geology
  Earth Science
  Landslides
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  Geotechnical engineering

  Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the engineering properties of earth materials. Geotechnical engineers investigate the soil and bedrock below a site to confirm their engineering properties ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
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  Accident and Trauma
  Natural Disasters
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  Social effects of Hurricane Katrina

  The impact and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina led to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the history of the United States. In addition to the over 1,300 fatalities caused by Katrina over ... > more
• Environmental Issues
  Water
  Geomagnetic Storms
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  Rainbow

  A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. ... > more

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