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Brood X Cicadas, Pt 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Although the three 17-year cicada species occur across the eastern half of North America (from Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean) the different populations of the species don’t have the adults emerging in the same 17-year cycle. This year they keep calling it Brood X. What does that mean? Brood XIV – next emergence In 2025 (last was 2008).

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How To Get ISO 14000 Certification

Environment Blog

In this article, you will learn how ISO 14000 can help businesses to adapt to our environmental crisis and how to get certified. Seas are rising and oceans are acidifying. Official revisions were released in 2004 and 2015. ISO 14000 standards support and promote the incorporation of sustainable practices in business. Author Bio.

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Top tips for super sandcastles: explore the weird world of sand

Physics World

None of us are likely to build anything as ambitious when we’re holidaying on the beach, but is there anything that science can tell us about how to make the perfect sandcastle? Series: Earth and Environmental Science 514 022071 ). Slippery when wet. It’s one added advantage of building sandcastles at the seaside.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

Today, it overlaps with many other sciences and has had a profound impact on the environmental sciences just as chemistry has. It also underpins the physical sciences by providing the theoretical framework on which it may base its own assumptions and basic theoretical models. How Physics Applies to Environmental Science.

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. SWOT, which will measure ocean currents in addition to freshwater flows, will be the latest entrant into this hall of remote sensing champions.

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