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Environmental geology, like hydrogeology, is an applied science concerned with the practical application of the principles of geology in the solving of environmental problems created by man. It is a multidisciplinary field that is closely related to engineering geology and, to a lesser extent, to environmental geography . [ 1 ]
The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, includes all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth.. The natural environment includes complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive human intervention, including all vegetation, animals, microorganisms, soil, rocks, atmosphere and natural phenomena that occur within their ...
Sustainability science. Sustainability science first emerged in the 1980s and has become a new academic discipline. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Similar to agricultural science or health science, it is an applied science defined by the practical problems it addresses. Sustainability science focuses on issues relating to sustainability and sustainable development ...
Environment News Service. The Environment News Service (ENS), referred to as ENS, is an environmental news agency which provides original late-breaking news reports. First published on January 1, 1990, ENS is based in the United States. ENS is privately owned and operated by founding publisher and editor in chief Sunny P. Lewis.
Geol. Economic and Environmental Geology is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original research and reviews in the fields of ore deposits, economic and environmental geology of the solid Earth at all scales. It the official journal of the Korean Society of Economic and Environmental Geology.
Geoinformatics. Geoinformatics is a scientific field primarily within the domains of Computer Science and technical geography. [1][2] It focuses on the programming of applications, spatial data structures, and the analysis of objects and space-time phenomena related to the surface and underneath of Earth and other celestial bodies.
Pre-Holocene (1.5 Ma) The time from roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BCE was a time of transition, and swift and extensive environmental change, as the planet was moving from an Ice age, towards an interstadial (warm period). Sea levels rose dramatically (and are continuing to do so), land that was depressed by glaciers began lifting up again, forests ...
Index of Earth science articles. Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences) is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. [1] It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life -bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches ...