B - Environment Vocab

In Britain, building is restricted or completely banned in the area of farming land or woods and parks which surrounds a town.

Many companies are developing boxes, cartons and cans which can easily be decomposed by organisms such as bacteria, or by sunlight, sea, water, etc.

The burning of some fuels creates carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, Sulphur dioxide, methane and other gases which rise into the atmosphere.

Farmers have cleared hectares of thick wooded land in tropical regions where the precipitation is very high.

Planting trees provides some protection from the gradual wearing away of soil.

We should all try to process waste material so that it can be used again.

These potatoes are cultivated naturally, without using any chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

This bread is made from wheat which has been altered at a molecular level so as to change certain characteristics which can be inherited.

More and more cars are built to use fuel which has been made without lead additives.

Don’t drink that water! It’s been made dirty by something being added to it.

Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and other people concerned with protecting the environment are holding a forum in London next month.

The heating up of the earth’s atmosphere by pollution is threatening life as we know it.

Polluted precipitation which kills trees falls a long distance away from the source of the pollution.

Human beings have had a devastating effect on the living things, both large and small, in many parts of the world.

The gases and other substances which come from factories using oil, coal and other fuels which are the remains of plants and animals can cause serious damage to the environment.