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• Weapons Technology
  Nuclear Energy
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Physics
  Environmental Science
   
  

  Effects of nuclear explosions

  A nuclear explosion occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. The driving reaction may be nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or a multistage cascading ... > more
• Marine Biology
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  Fish
  Invasive Species
  Sea Life
   
  

  Tide pool

  Tide pools (also tidal pools or rock pools) are rocky pools by the ocean that are filled with seawater. Tide pools can either be small and shallow or large and deep. The small ones are usually found ... > more
• Storms
  Severe Weather
  Snow and Avalanches
  Global Warming
  Climate
  Geomagnetic Storms
   
  

  Winter storm

  A winter storm is a type of precipitation in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground ... > more
• Wind Energy
  Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Environmental Science
  Energy and Resources
  Energy Technology
   
  

  Wind power

  Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into more useful forms, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2006, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 73.9 gigawatts; ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Zoology
  Behavioral Science
  Animals
  Trees
  Pests and Parasites
   
  

  Insect

  Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely-distributed taxon within the Phylum Arthropoda. Insects comprise the most diverse group of animals on the ... > 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
• Severe Weather
  Storms
  Tornadoes
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Snow and Avalanches
  Geomagnetic Storms
   
  

  1993 North American storm complex

  The 1993 North American storm complex, also known as the (Great) Blizzard of 1993, or the Storm of the Century, was a large cyclonic storm that occurred on March to March 15, 1993, on the East Coast ... > more
• Desert
  Tsunamis
  Water
  Geography
  Natural Disasters
  Wildfires
   
  

  Beach

  A beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, cobble, or even shell along the shoreline of a body of water. There are several conspicuous parts ... > 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
• Fish
  Fisheries
  Marine Biology
  Sea Life
  Ecology
  Coral Reefs
   
  

  Environmental effects of fishing

  Environmental impacts of fishing are the ecological changes brought about on the wider environment of the growth in global demand for fish as a food source, and to a lesser extent, for the aquarium ... > more

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