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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. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche warning AVW – Avalanche activity—either natural or human-induced—is ongoing or imminent, and likely to affect roadways, structures or backcountry activities and threaten the lives of people within the avalanche's path. Safety precautions will be recommended or ordered as dictated by state law or local ordinance.

4. List of countries by natural disaster risk - Wikipedia

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   "Natural Disasters News". Ubyrisk. Archived from the original on 2018-11-01 Worldwide news site focused on natural disasters, mitigation and climate changes news "Global Risk Identification Program (GRIP)". GRIP. "BioCaster Global Health Monitor". National Institute of Informatics (NII). Archived from the original on 2014-05-04.

5. Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) - Wikipedia

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   This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...

6. Natural disaster - Wikipedia

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   A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event. Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches , droughts , earthquakes , floods , heat waves , landslides - including submarine landslides , tropical cyclones , volcanic activity and wildfires . [ 1 ]

7. Glossary of environmental science - Wikipedia

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   middle East– 15 countries - Bahrain, Islamic Rep. Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. mitigation hierarchy - a tool that aims to help management of biodiversity risk and is commonly applied in Environmental Impact Assessments. It includes a hierarchy of steps (but is not ...

8. Environmental disaster - Wikipedia

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   An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is defined as a catastrophic event regarding the natural environment that is due to human activity. [2] This point distinguishes environmental disasters from other disturbances such as natural disasters and intentional acts of war such as nuclear bombings .

9. Disaster - Wikipedia

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   The word disaster is derived from Middle French désastre which comes from Old Italian disastro. This in turn comes from the Ancient Greek pejorative prefix δυσ - (dus-) "bad" [48] and ἀστήρ (aster), "star". [49] So the word disaster ("bad star" in Greek) comes from an astrological sense of a calamity blamed on the position of planets ...