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• Soil Types
  Agriculture and Food
  Rainforests
  Forest
  Sustainability
  Endangered Plants
   

  Shifting cultivation

  Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. This system often involves clearing of a piece of ... > more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Environmental Issues
  Nature
  Geography
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Effects of global warming

  The predicted effects of global warming are many and various, both for the environment and for human life. There is some speculation that global warming could, via a shutdown or slowdown of the ... > more
• Soil Types
  Organic
  Fungus
  Landslides
  Agriculture and Food
  Acid Rain
   
  

  Soil science

  Soil science deals with soil as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils ... > 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
• Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Nature
  Ecology Research
  Seeds
  Pests and Parasites
   

  Plant defense against herbivory

  Plants have evolved an enormous array of mechanical and chemical defenses against the animals that eat them. These tools allow plants to survive and reproduce in the same area as herbivores and act ... > more
• Forest
  Rainforests
  Grassland
  Trees
  Botany
  Biodiversity
   
  

  Savanna

  A savanna or savannah is a grassland with widely spaced trees, and occurs in several types of biomes. In savannas, grasses and trees are co-dominant vegetation types, with trees and grasses often ... > more
• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fisheries
  Sea Life
  Extreme Survival
  Wild Animals
   
  

  Deep sea fish

  Deep sea fish is a term for fish that live below the photic zone of the ocean. Examples include the lanternfish, flashlight fish, cookie-cutter shark, bristlemouths, and anglerfish. The fish of the ... > more
• Exotic Species
  Botany
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
  New Species
  Invasive Species
   
  

  Tamarix

  The genus Tamarix, known as tamarisk or (US) saltcedar, comprises about 50-60 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees growing to 1-15 m in height and forming dense thickets, native to ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Evolution
  Intelligence
  Evolutionary Biology
   

  Hominid intelligence

  The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a much-studied and much-debated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. There is no universally ... > more
• Monkeys
  Nature
  Extinction
  Endangered Animals
  New Species
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Cottontop Tamarin

  The Cottontop Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), also known as the Pinche Tamarin, is a small New World monkey weighing less than 1lb (0.5 kg). It is an endangered species found in tropical forest edges and ... > more

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