the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription
a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there