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• Fish
  Marine Biology
  New Species
  Geography
  Sea Life
  Ecology Research
   
  

  Krill

  Krill are shrimp-like marine invertebrate animals. These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals ... > more
• Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Earth Science
  Geography
  Natural Disasters
  Geology
  Earthquakes
   
  

  Chicxulub Crater

  Chicxulub Crater is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan peninsula, with its center located approximately underneath the town of Chicxulub, Yucatan, Mexico. Investigations suggest ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Invasive Species
  Exotic Species
  Animals
  Soil Types
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Japanese beetle

  The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) is a beetle about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide (smaller in Canada), with shiny copper-colored elytra and a shiny green top of the thorax ... > more
• Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
  Earthquakes
  Geography
  Water
  Volcanoes
   
  

  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
• Wildfires
  Natural Disasters
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Invasive Species
  Ecology Research
  Severe Weather
   
  

  Bushfire

  A bushfire is a wildfire that occurs in the bush (collective term for forest, scrub, woodland or grassland of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia). In southeast Australia, bushfires tend to be most ... > more
• Geomagnetic Storms
  Sun
  Solar Flare
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Wind Energy
   
  

  Solar wind

  A solar wind is a stream of charged particles (i.e., a plasma) which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. When originating from stars other than the Earth's Sun, it is sometimes called a ... > more
• Gynecology
  Fungus
  Microbiology
  Beer and Wine
  Genetics
  Geochemistry
   
  

  Yeast

  Yeasts constitute a group of single-celled (unicellular) fungi, a few species of which are commonly used to leaven bread, ferment alcoholic beverages, and even drive experimental fuel cells. Most ... > more
• Apes
  Rainforests
  Monkeys
  New Species
  Mammals
  Animals
   
  

  Orangutan

  Orangutans (also spelled orang utan, orang-utan, sometimes incorrectly orangutang) are two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair. Orangutans are highly endangered in ... > more
• Geography
  Geology
  Earth Science
  Earthquakes
  Oceanography
  Drought Research
   
  

  Pangaea

  Pangaea or Pangea is the name given to the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, before the process of plate tectonics separated each of the component continents into ... > more
• Geography
  Earthquakes
  Oceanography
  Geology
  Natural Disasters
  Tsunamis
   
  

  Oceanic trench

  The oceanic trenches are hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They also are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Trenches define one of the most important ... > more

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