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Dudleya cymosa (Lem.) Britt. & Rose
Dudleya cymosa (Lem.) Britt. & Rose is a perennial low-growing succulent plant species that is endemic to California. Having a number of subspecies, this fleshy plant is... 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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Douglas-fir
The Douglas-fir (scientific name: Pseudotsuga) is a genus of tree that includes ar least five species found in North America and... More »
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European otter
The European otter (Lutra lutra) is a broadly distributed marine mammal found in both marine and freshwater systems over considerable portions of Europe, Asia and North Africa;... More »
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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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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 »
Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 15:23
The Northwestern thorn scrub forests ecoregion represents a large expanse of degraded dry forest surrounding the Thar Desert. Neither exceptionally species-rich nor high in... More »
Pakistan
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 15:06
Pakistan is a nation of one hundred and ninety million people (mid-2013 est.) in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on... More »
Sulu Archipelago rainforests
Last Updated on 2013-05-25 at 14:29
Although these islands represent transitional stepping stones from the island of Borneo to Mindanao in the Philippines, they have evolved their own distinctive faunas. The Sulu... More »
Turkish Straits
Last Updated on 2013-05-24 at 13:41
The Bosporus and Dardanelles are the Turkish Straits and divide Asia from Europe.
The Bosporus is a 17-mile long waterway that connects the Black Sea with the... More »
Dardanelles
Last Updated on 2013-05-24 at 13:41
The Dardanelles (formerly known as the Hellespont) is a 38 mile (61 km) long waterway that links the Sea of Marmara (and through the Bosporus Strait, the Black Sea) with the... More »
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