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Jamaican dry forests
Jamaican dry forests is an ecoregion that covers a minority of the land area of the nation island of Jamaica, which ranks fifth among the Earth's islands in terms of endemic plant... More »
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Petrochemicals
Petrochemicals are chemical products made from the hydrocarbons present in raw natural gas and petroleum crude oil. The largest petrochemical manufacturing industries are to... More »
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Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park, Andalucia,...
Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park lies along the Alboran Sea of the Mediterranean coast of Andalucia, Spain. The most arid area in the entirety of Europe, it boasts varied... More »
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the generation of electricity from controlled reactions within the nucleii of atoms that release energy used to boil water, the steam from which drives a... More »
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Jean-Michel Cousteau: use of oil dispersants...
The Rundown caught up with ocean explorer and occasional PBS host Jean-Michel Cousteau to chat about what his team discovered on dives in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon... More »
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West Nile Virus
Since 1999, more than 30,000 people in the United States have been reported as getting sick with West Nile virus. Infected mosquitoes spread West Nile virus (WNV) that can... More »
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Ecological pyramids
Ecological pyramids are diagrams that illustrate how ecologically important factors, such as energy, biomass, and population size, vary between trophic levels in an ecosystem.... More »
Valdivian temperate forests
Last Updated on 2013-05-22 at 01:13
The Valdivian temperate forests and the more hygrophilous vegetation of the Mediterranean area of central Chile, represent a true biogeographic island separated from... More »
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
Last Updated on 2013-05-22 at 01:09
The Northeastern Congolian lowland forests contains endemic species and large areas of forest wilderness with intact animal and plant assemblages. Endemic species include the... More »
Central Pacific coastal forests
Last Updated on 2013-05-22 at 00:59
The Central Pacific Coastal Forests stretch from southern Oregon to the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Major habitats of this diverse region include sea stacks, sandy... More »
Hainan Island monsoon rainforests
Last Updated on 2013-05-21 at 20:13
Hainan Island, located in the South China Sea, supports extensive monsoon forest in its seasonally dry interior. Many endemic taxa have evolved here, and forest types resemble... More »
Myanmar coastal rainforests
Last Updated on 2013-05-21 at 19:55
The Myanmar coastal rainforests are a diverse set of climatic niches and habitats that include flora and fauna from the Indian, Indochina, and Sundaic regions. Though low in... More »
Vanuatu rainforests
Last Updated on 2013-05-21 at 19:51
The Vanuatu rainforests consist of more than eighty true oceanic islands, in two groups, at the edge of both the Australasian realm and the Pacific Basin. They contain fifteen... More »
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