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• Water
  Soil Types
  Environmental Issues
  Drought Research
  Drought
  Ecosystems
   
  

  Evapotranspiration

  Evapotranspiration (ET) is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration. Evaporation accounts for the movement of water to the air from sources such as the soil, canopy interception, and ... > more
• Bacteria
  Microbiology
  Microbes and More
  Extreme Survival
  Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  Infectious Diseases
   
  

  Bacteria

  Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. Most are microscopic and unicellular, with a relatively simple cell structure lacking a cell nucleus, and organelles such as ... > more
• Food and Agriculture
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Nutrition
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Potato

  The potato is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. Potato plants have a low-growing habit and bear white to purple flowers with yellow stamens. In ... > more
• Ecology Research
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
  Soil Types
  Marine Biology
  Organic
   
  

  Wetland

  In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems. In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands are typically highly productive ... > more
• Fungus
  Soil Types
  Endangered Plants
  Microbes and More
  Nature
  Microbiology
   
  

  Lichen

  Lichens are symbiotic associations of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner (photobiont) that can produce food for the lichen from sunlight. The photobiont is usually either green algae or ... > more
• Infant's Health
  Agriculture and Food
  Food and Agriculture
  Organic
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  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
• Agriculture and Food
  Food and Agriculture
  Soil Types
  Sustainability
  Food
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Agriculture

  Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and many other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). The practice of ... > more
• Fungus
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Microbiology
  Microbes and More
   
  

  Mushroom

  A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus, having a shaft and a cap. By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of ... > more
• Alternative Medicine
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
  Pain Control
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Aromatherapy

  Aromatherapy,, commonly associated with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), is the use of volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from ... > more
• Wildfires
  Oil Spills
  Rainforests
  Trees
  Ecology Research
  Ecology
   
  

  Controlled burn

  Prescribed or controlled burning is a technique sometimes used in forest management, farming, or prairie restoration. Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire ... > more

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