Thema D.1 - Environmental Issues

Angst haben (v) – to be afraid

(Atom)kraft (f) – (nuclear) energy

Benzin (n) – petrol

Dürre (f) – drought

Energie (f) – energy

Erdbeben (n) – earthquake

Erde (f) – earth, world

Erdöl (n) – crude oil, petroleum

Erwärmung (f) – warming

global (ad) – global

Holz (m) – wood, timber

Kapitalanlage (f) – investment

Katastrophe (f) – catastrophe

Kohle (f) – coal

Öl (n) – oil

Ölteppich (m) – oil slick

ökologisch (ad) – ecological

Opfer (n) – victim

organisch (ad) – organic

Recycling (n) – recycling

Regenwald (m) – rainforest

retten (v) – to save

sauber (ad) – clean

saurer Regen (m) – acid rain

schmutzig (ad) – dirty

steigen (v) – to go up (temperature)

töten (v) – to kill

Tierart (f) – animal species

Tornado (m) – tornado

Treibhauseffekt (m) – greenhouse effect

Überschwemmung (f) – flood

Umwelt (f) – environment

umweltbewusst (ad) – environmentally aware

Verkehr (m) – traffic

Verkehrsstau (m) – traffic jam

verschmutzt (ad) – polluted

vom Aussterben bedroht (ad) – endangered by extinction

(Wald)brand (m) – (forest) fire

Welle (f) – wave

Welt (f) – world

zerstören (v) – to destroy