Sustainability Articles

• Oceanography
  Floods
  Geography
  Landslides
  Global Warming
  Ecology
   
  

  Coast

  The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. A coastline is properly, a line on a map indicating the disposition of a coast but the word is often used to refer to the ... > more
• Pollution
  Environmental Issues
  Air Quality
  Air Pollution
  Environmental Science
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Pollution

  Environmental pollution is the release of environmental contaminants, generally resulting from human activity. Carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor ... > more
• Earthquakes
  Natural Disasters
  Tsunamis
  Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Environmental Science
   
  

  Moment magnitude scale

  The moment magnitude scale was introduced in 1979 by Tom Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori as a successor to the Richter scale and is used by seismologists to compare the energy released by ... > more
• Agriculture and Food
  Geography
  Soil Types
  Earth Science
  Sustainability
  Endangered Plants
   

  Monoculture

  Monoculture describes systems that have very low diversity. In agriculture, "monoculture" describes the practice of relying on a very small number of genetic variants, or cultivars of a food crop for ... > more
• Botany
  Nature
  Global Warming
  Air Quality
  Geochemistry
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Photosynthesis

  Photosynthesis, generally, is the synthesis of sugar from light, carbon dioxide and water, with oxygen as a waste product. It is arguably the most important biochemical pathway known; nearly all life ... > more
• Computer Modeling
  Climate
  Global Warming
  Weather
  Environmental Issues
  Nature
   
  

  Global climate model

  General Circulation Models (GCMs) are a class of computer-driven models for weather forecasting, understanding climate and projecting climate change, where they are commonly called Global Climate ... > more
• Mining
  Environmental Science
  Engineering
  Civil Engineering
  Sports Science
  Energy Technology
   
  

  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
• Civil Engineering
  Geology
  Earthquakes
  Engineering
  Natural Disasters
  Energy Technology
   

  Engineering geology

  Engineering Geology is the application of the science of geology to the understanding of geologic phenomena and the engineering solution of geologic hazards and other geologic problems for ... > more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Policy
  Environmental Science
  Weather
   
  

  Attribution of recent climate change

  Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically demonstrate which mechanisms are responsible for observed changes in the Earth's climate. The endeavor centers on the observed ... > more
• Infant's Health
  Agriculture and Food
  Organic
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Pesticide

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or USEPA) defines a pesticide as "any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest". A pesticide ... > more

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