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Climate change

The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.

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Climate change

Hummer

Natural environment; Climate change

Hummer is the brand name of a 4x4/off-road vehicle manufactured by General Motors and styled after the US military's high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV, or Humvee). The Hummer is ...

Hybrid

Natural environment; Climate change

A hybrid car is one that has both a petrol engine and an electric motor and switches between them according to the driving conditions. It is different from a dual-fuel vehicle, which uses two types ...

Hydrocarbons

Natural environment; Climate change

Hydrocarbons are compounds made up of hydrogen and carbon only. All fossil fuels - such as coal, oil and gas - are hydrocarbons, until they are burnt when they mix with oxygen, creating (amongst ...

Hydropower

Natural environment; Climate change

Hydropower (or hydroelectric power) is the generation of electricity using the power of falling water.

Incandescent bulbs

Natural environment; Climate change

Incandescents are traditional lightbulbs that use a filament (a thin thread of metal, usually tungsten wire) inside a glass bulb that glows white hot as electricity passes through it. The filament is ...

Nitrogen oxides

Natural environment; Climate change

Nitrogen oxides are compounds of nitrogen and oxygen, two elements that do not normally react with each other but will do so during high temperature combustion – such as in a car engine. Examples ...

Offsetting

Natural environment; Climate change

Offsetting, or carbon offsetting, refers to the (highly contentious) principle that a company or individual can mitigate or even entirely neutralise the effects of their CO2 emissions by investing in ...

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