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Wet Tropics of Queensland
Wet Tropics of Queensland: UNESCO World Heritage Area (inscribed 1988, criteria vii–x) of tropical rainforest along 450 km of northeast Queensland between Townsville and Cooktown, covering about 894,420 ha with exceptional Gondwanan relict flora and fauna.
Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Wet, Scottish pop-soul band formed in Glasgow in 1982 (Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell, Marti Pellow, Graeme Duffin), best known for the 15-week UK No. 1 cover "Love Is All Around" from Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Wet World (south eastern asia, w23780845)
Wet World is a Malaysian waterpark chain, self-described as the country's largest, with parks at Shah Alam, Selangor (opened 1996 on Taman Tasik Shah Alam's West Lake) and Pedas, Negeri Sembilan; family-oriented, value-priced rides like Monsoon Buster and Super Hurricane.
Wet World (south eastern asia, w23780846)
Wet World Shah Alam, a family water theme park opened in 1996 on a 2.4-hectare site by Shah Alam Lake Gardens, Selangor, Malaysia. Flagship of Malaysia's largest waterpark chain under Only World Group; debuted the first Master Blaster water coaster outside North America in 1997; admission from RM35.
Wet wrap therapy
Wet wrap therapy is a dermatological treatment in which moist inner and dry outer layers are wrapped over medicated skin, mainly for severe atopic dermatitis.
Wet-bulb globe temperature
Wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) is the most widely used index of heat stress, combining wet-bulb, black globe, and air temperatures; the US military adopted it in 1956.
Wet-bulb potential temperature
Wet-bulb potential temperature, written θw, is the temperature an air parcel reaches after adiabatic cooling to saturation and moist-adiabatic transport to 1000 mb, conserved in adiabatic processes.
Wet-bulb temperature
Wet-bulb temperature is the temperature a thermometer reads when its bulb is covered by evaporating water, always lower than the dry-bulb air temperature except at 100% humidity.
Wetar
Pulau Wetar (Wetar Island), Indonesian island in the Inner Banda Arc, Southwest Maluku, near Timor; volcanic, sparsely populated, historic VOC-Topass rivalry, gold-rich VMS deposits, and the Wetar Copper Mine.
Wetback (slur)
Wetback is an offensive slur for Mexican or Latino people, from wading the Rio Grande to enter the U.S.; dated to the 1920s and used officially in the 1954 Operation Wetback deportations.
Wethandaya Pyo
Wethandaya Pyo is a Burmese pyo, an ornate classical verse work retelling the Vessantara Jataka, the tale of Prince Vessantara whose perfect generosity is rewarded with a triumphant homecoming.
Wether
Wether: a castrated male sheep (also a castrated male goat in some dictionaries), castrated before sexual maturity and kept for mutton or wool; distinct from ram (intact male) and ewe (female), with age and pain-control limits on castration in UK and Australian law.
Wetherspoons
Wetherspoons (J D Wetherspoon plc, JDW) is a British pub chain founded by Tim Martin in 1979 in Muswell Hill, London. FTSE 250 managed-pub operator of 792 UK and Ireland pubs plus franchised sites, known for low prices, converted historic buildings, and its Curry Club.
Wetjes-Hor
Wetjes-Hor was the 2nd nome of Upper Egypt, centered on Edfu, whose capital was Behedet and whose god, Horus of Behedet, was attested from 2345 BCE.
Wetka
Wetka, also written Tuka or Tuwka, was a prince of Egypt's Old Kingdom, known only from relief scenes in the Giza tomb chapel of his father Khufukhaf I.
Wetland
Wetlands are water-saturated lands with hydrophytic vegetation and hydric soils, from marshes and bogs to mangroves. Defined by Ramsar (1971) and the EPA; 22% lost since 1970; largest biological methane source.
Wetland classification
Wetland classification systems group wetlands by hydrology, geomorphology, vegetation, and soils. Key frameworks: the U.S. Cowardin system (five systems, 56 classes), the Ramsar 42-type typology, and Brinson's HGM functional classification.
Wetland conservation in the United States
Wetland conservation in the United States covers Clean Water Act Section 404 regulation, mitigation banking, no-net-loss policy, and restoration programs protecting about 110 million acres of wetlands, reshaped by the 2023 Sackett v. EPA decision.
Wetland delineation
Wetland delineation is the field procedure of drawing the boundary between wetland and non-wetland areas on a parcel of land, usually for Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting.
Wetland flora of the British Isles
Wetland flora of the British Isles is the plant vegetation of fen, bog, marsh, swamp, and salt-marsh habitats, described as assemblages under the National Vegetation Classification.
Wetland indicator status
Wetland indicator status is a rating of how likely a plant species occurs in wetlands, assigned on the U.S. Army Corps' National Wetland Plant List.
Wetland Management Districts of Iowa
The Wetland Management Districts of Iowa are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field offices protecting waterfowl habitat through scattered Waterfowl Production Areas and perpetual wetland easements rather than a single refuge.
Wetland Management Districts of Nebraska
The Wetland Management Districts of Nebraska are US Fish and Wildlife Service units managing scattered waterfowl production areas and easements, including the Rainwater Basin district established in 1963.
Wetland Protection Law of China
The Wetland Protection Law of China (中华人民共和国湿地保护法) is China's first dedicated wetland protection statute, approved in December 2021 and effective 1 June 2022, with per-square-meter penalties for wetland destruction.
Wetland restoration
Wetland restoration returns a degraded or formerly drained wetland to its pre-disturbance condition by re-establishing natural hydrology, substrate, and vegetation; full recovery of plant communities and nutrient cycling can take decades.
Wetlands (2013 film)
Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete), 2013 German comedy-drama by David Wnendt, adapted from Charlotte Roche's 2008 scandal-novel; Carla Juri plays unhygienic teen Helen Memel hospitalized after a shaving accident, trying to reunite her divorced parents.
Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules (India)
The Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules are India's central wetland regulations under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, first issued in 2010 and replaced in 2017 by state-led, wise-use management.
Wetlands of Central Kolkheti
Wetlands of Central Kolkheti (ცენტრალური კოლხეთის ჭარბტენიანი ტერიტორიები), Ramsar site no. 893 in western Georgia, designated 1997, 33,710 ha plus marine water, largest Georgian Ramsar site, overlapping Kolkheti National Park.
Wetlands of Tasmania
The wetlands of Tasmania are the island state's marshes, lagoons, peatlands, and saltmarshes, including 10 Ramsar sites, 89 nationally listed wetlands, and some of the southern hemisphere's most extensive blanket bogs.
Wetlands Reserve in Al Wusta Governorate
Wetlands Reserve in Al Wusta Governorate (محمية الأراضي الرطبة بمحافظة الوسطى), a coastal nature reserve at Barr Al Hikman, Mahout, Oman, established by Royal Decree 51/2014 and designated Ramsar site 2529 in 2023, hosting about 465,000 waterbirds annually.