Environmental issues
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- abated
- abatement
- acid rain
- aerobic digester
- agrivoltaic
- agrivoltaics
- agroecology
- air pollution
- anaerobic digester
- anoxia
- anoxic
- anthropization
- anthropize
- anthropized
- anti-conservation
- anti-conservationist
- anti-consumer
- anti-consumerism
- anti-consumerist
- anti-development
- anti-environmental
- anti-globalization
- anti-litter
- anti-littering
- anti-smog
- arcology
- biocapacity
- biocentric
- biodegradable
- biodegrade
- biological control
- biomaterial
- biome
- biopiracy
- bioregion
- bioremediation
- biospheric
- biotic
- biotic index
- black water
- bleach
- bleaching
- Blue Flag
- carbon
- carbon capture
- carbon credits
- carbon debt
- carbon emissions
- carbon footprint
- carbon neutrality
- carbon offset
- carbon offsetting
- carbon sink
- carbon tax
- carbon trading
- carbon-negative
- carbon-neutral
- carbon-zero
- carrying capacity
- catchment management
- CCS
- clean-air
- cleantech
- climate
- climate anxiety
- climate breakdown
- climate change
- climate crisis
- climate denial
- climate denier
- climate emergency
- climate justice
- climate migrant
- climate refugee
- climate strike
- climate-friendly
- climatically
- climatologically
- co-processing
- compostable
- conservancy
- conservation
- conservation area
- conserve
- coral bleaching
- critical
- crunchy
- cryosphere
- cultural ecology
- daylight
- daylighting
- dead zone
- decarbonization
- decarbonize
- decontaminate
- decontamination
- defoliant
- deforest
- deforestation
- demographic
- depletable
- depopulate
- depopulation
- direct air capture
- disafforest
- disposable
- downcycle
- dumping
- dumping ground
- dumping of something
- eco-
- eco-audit
- eco-auditor
- eco-footprint
- eco-friendly
- eco-label
- eco-labelling
- ecocide
- ecodesign
- ecolodge
- ecological
- ecological footprint
- ecologically
- ecologist
- ecology
- ecoregion
- ecosystem
- ecotecture
- ecotone
- ecotourism
- ecotown
- ecozone
- efficiency
- emission
- endangered species
- Endangered Species Act
- energy conservation
- energy security
- energy-efficient
- environment
- environmental
- environmental advocacy
- environmental advocate
- environmental impact assessment
- environmental impact statement
- environmental justice
- environmental restoration
- environmental stress
- environmentalism
- environmentalist
- environmentally
- environmentally friendly
- ESG
- exhaustible
- extinction event
- fallout
- fallout from something
- feed-in tariff
- food insecure
- food insecurity
- food secure
- food security
- freecycle
- freeganism
- fuel-efficient
- Gaia
- game warden
- garbage patch
- geoengineering
- GHG
- global heating
- global warming
- globalization
- go-cup
- granola
- green
- green audit
- green revolution
- greenhouse gas
- greenie
- greening
- greenly
- greenness
- greenwash
- greenwashing
- grey water
- heat sink
- HEPA filter
- hypermile
- hypermiler
- hypermiling
- hypoxia
- hypoxic
- impact assessment
- inorganically
- insolation
- interpopulation
- interpopulational
- irreclaimable
- landfill
- leachate
- LEZ
- life-support system
- light pollution
- litter
- litterbug
- low emission zone
- low-carbon
- low-energy
- lukewarmer
- marine conservation
- mass extinction
- micropollutant
- natural resources
- natural world
- net zero
- noise pollution
- non-biodegradable
- non-depletable
- non-polluting
- non-recyclable
- non-renewable
- nonreusable
- NOx
- nuclear waste
- nuclear winter
- off-grid
- off-gridder
- off-the-grid
- offset
- oil slick
- oil spill
- organophosphate
- outpopulate
- over-exploit
- over-exploitation
- overpopulated
- overpopulation
- ozone
- ozone-friendly
- particulate
- PCB
- peak oil
- photochemical smog
- phytoremediation
- plastic footprint
- poison
- pollutant
- pollute
- polluted
- polluter
- pollution
- pop
- populate
- population
- preservation
- preservationist
- protected
- rape
- rebound effect
- reclaim
- reclamation
- recyclable
- recycle
- recycled
- recycler
- recycling
- reduce
- reduce, reuse, recycle idiom
- refuse dump
- remote sensing
- remote sensor
- renewable
- renewables
- renewably
- reprocess
- reprocessing
- restoration ecology
- reusable
- rewild
- rewilding
- runoff
- sanitary landfill
- scrapyard
- scrubber
- season creep
- sequester
- sequestration
- single-use
- skip diving
- slick
- slow city
- smog
- smoggy
- solar energy
- solar power
- solarize
- spillage
- SSSI
- sustainability
- sustainable
- sustainably
- the greenhouse effect
- the National Trust
- the ozone layer
- the polluter pays principle idiom
- threatened species
- throwaway
- tidal power
- tip
- tipping point
- tradable permit
- transfer station
- tree hugger
- ULEZ
- ultra-efficient
- unburnable
- unecological
- unleaded
- unpolluted
- unreclaimed
- unrecyclable
- unsustainable
- unsustainably
- upcycle
- upcycling
- VOC
- vog
- water column
- water neutral
- water neutrality
- water stress
- water-stressed
- zero waste
- zero-carbon
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