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There are many conditions that demonstrate that the environment has a large impact on health. For example, cholera from polluted water supplies, increased cataracts from the sun, asthma from air pollution...

Tectonic hazards are those caused by the movement of tectonic plates on the earth's surface, such as earthquakes and volcanoes. Primary effects occur as a direct result of the movement; for example, groun...

The outside of a bend has faster flow, which means that erosion occurs there. Over time, this means that the neck of the meander, which is the gap between 2 parallel channels in the meander, gets narrower...

Economic measures, especially simplistic measures such as GNI, can be misleading. Firstly, economic measures do not take any account of people’s quality of life which is important in social terms. Secondl...

Isostatic sea level change refers to a change in the level of the land relative to the sea, and it is a localised change. The two main causes are isostatic rebound - the slow rise of areas that were once ...