Environment

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Altitude sickness in travel

Altitude sickness is a reaction to the lower amounts of oxygen available at high altitudes (due to the lower air…

5 years ago

Garden design

Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes.…

5 years ago

Arcology

Arcology, a portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology", is a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated, ecologically…

6 years ago

Zero-emissions vehicle

A zero-emissions vehicle, or ZEV, is a vehicle that emits no exhaust gas from the onboard source of power. Harmful…

6 years ago

Life-cycle assessment

Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated…

6 years ago

Sustainable biofuel

Sustainable biofuel is biofuel produced in a sustainable manner. Biofuels are liquid fuels produced from renewable raw materials , unlike…

6 years ago

Issues relating to biofuels

There are various social, economic, environmental and technical issues with biofuel production and use, which have been discussed in the…

6 years ago

Energy forestry

Energy forestry is a plantation of fast growing trees with the aim of producing wood as a renewable raw material…

6 years ago

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a potential greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon dioxide emissions…

6 years ago

Eichhornia crassipes

Eichhornia crassipes, commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin, and is often…

6 years ago