Environment & Sustainability

Vocabulary for ecological and environmental discourse

Introducción

Los temas ambientales dominan la conversación global, y hablar de ellos requiere vocabulario específico. Desde ciencia climática hasta iniciativas de sostenibilidad, estas palabras te ayudan a participar en uno de los temas definitorios de nuestra época.

Este capítulo presenta vocabulario para discusiones ambientales, conceptos ecológicos y sostenibilidad. Estas palabras aparecen frecuentemente en noticias, debates políticos y conversaciones cotidianas sobre el futuro de nuestro planeta.

Temas

Todos los Vocabulario avanzado en este capítulo (26)

• biodiversity The variety of plant and animal life in a particular habitat or in the world ...
• ecosystem A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environmen...
• renewable Capable of being replenished naturally, especially referring to energy source...
• emission The production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation; most ...
• deforestation The clearing or removal of forests or trees from land, typically for agricult...
• habitat The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
• conservation The protection, preservation, and careful management of natural resources, wi...
• sustainability The ability to maintain or support a process continuously over time, especial...
• ecological Relating to or concerned with the relation of living organisms to one another...
• contamination The action or state of making something impure by exposure to or addition of ...
• erosion The gradual wearing away of rock, soil, or land surface by natural forces suc...
• watershed An area of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers or basins; ...
• ozone A form of oxygen with three atoms per molecule (O3), found naturally in the E...
• greenhouse A glass or transparent structure for growing plants; also used attributively ...
• reclamation The process of claiming something back or of returning land to a usable state...
• compost Decayed organic material used as fertiliser for growing plants, or the proces...
• pesticide A chemical substance used to kill insects, weeds, fungi, or other organisms t...
• herbicide A chemical substance used to destroy unwanted vegetation, especially weeds th...
• endangered At serious risk of extinction, used especially of species whose numbers have ...
• extinction The permanent disappearance of a species from Earth when the last individual ...
• resilience The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; the ability of a system, c...
• mitigation The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
• adaptation The process of adjusting to new conditions, or a feature that has developed t...
• sequestration The process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or m...
• geothermal Relating to or produced by the internal heat of the Earth, especially as a so...
• biomass Organic matter derived from living or recently living organisms, used as a fu...