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Radioactive waste
Radioactive waste is waste type containing radioactive chemical elements that does not have a practical purpose. It is sometimes the product of a nuclear process, such as nuclear fission. The ... > more -
List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes
This is a list of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes. A Category 5 hurricane, on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is the most catastrophic hurricane that can form. They are rare in the eastern Pacific ... > more -
Cyclone Mala
Cyclone Mala, also known as Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Mala, was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2006 North Indian cyclone ... > more -
Urban planning
Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities. In the nineteenth ... > more -
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. In the ... > more -
Hurricane proof building
Tornadoes, cyclones, and other strong winds damage or destroy many buildings. Here are some architectural design ... > more -
Sea-Monkey
Sea-Monkeys are a hybrid of Artemia salina, a species of brine shrimp. These are a type of fairy shrimp -- not true shrimp, but a branchiopod. The term Sea-Monkeys (sometimes unhyphenated) is a ... > more -
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Australia, from December 24 to December 25, ... > more -
Earthquake
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are accordingly measured with a seismometer, commonly known as a ... > more -
James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. He is most famous for ... > more
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