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  2. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Cyclones. Extratropical cyclone. European windstorms; Australian East Coast Low "Medicane", Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones Polar cyclone; Tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, typhoon, or just "cyclone"

  3. Exploitation of natural resources - Wikipedia

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    Environmental pressure increases as a result of globalization.” [33] Globalization has spurred the development of complex supply chains and trade networks that connect resource-rich regions with centers of production and consumption across the globe. While this interconnectedness has fueled economic growth and development in some regions, it ...

  4. Resource depletion - Wikipedia

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    The depletion of resources has been an issue since the beginning of the 19th century amidst the First Industrial Revolution.The extraction of both renewable and non-renewable resources increased drastically, much further than thought possible pre-industrialization, due to the technological advancements and economic development that lead to an increased demand for natural resources.

  5. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    1901 eastern United States heat wave: United States 1901 6. 5,000–10,000 1988–1990 North American drought: United States 1988 7. 3,951 2019 European heat waves: Europe 2019 8. 3,418 [55] 2006 European heat wave: 2006 9. 2,541 [55] 1998 Indian heat wave India: 1998 10. 2,500 2015 Indian heat wave: 2015

  6. How The World Bank Is Financing Environmental Destruction

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    The World Bank Group aims to cure “extreme” poverty by financing development in the planet’s poorest places. It is an ambitious goal. More than 1 billion people around the world live on less than $1.25 a day. The IFC has said the developing world needs 600 million new jobs by 2020 just to keep up with surging population growth.

  7. List of sinkholes - Wikipedia

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    Considered one of the largest sinkholes (dolinas) in the world; Gruta do Centenário – a cave located in Mariana, Minas Gerais, the largest and deepest quartzite cave in the world, and second in the country in terms of unevenness; Lapa Terra Ronca – a dolomitic limestone cave inside the area of the Terra Ronca State Park in Goiás.

  8. 12 Terrifying Bridges Around the World We Never Want to Cross

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    The Sidu River Bridge in China is one of the world's highest bridges, soaring at a height of about 1,627 feet above the Sidu River Gorge. Completed in 2009, it was once the world's highest bridge ...

  9. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released their biennial State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture in 2018 [57] noting that capture fishery production has remained constant for the last two decades but unsustainable overfishing has increased to 33% of the world's fisheries. They also noted that aquaculture, the production of ...