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alternatives: one of two or more available possibilities.

Part of speech: noun: audiobooks are an interesting alternative to reading

desertification: the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.

Part of speech: noun: nearly one fifth of the world's land is threatened with desertification

deserts: arid land with usually sparse vegetation

Part of speech: noun: They are many deserts in the word.

expanding: become or make larger or more extensive.

Part of speech: noun: their business expanded into other hotels and properties

Flooding: the covering or submerging of normally dry land with a large amount of water.

Part of speech: noun: There is a serious risk of flooding

Country: a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.

Part of speech: noun: the country's increasingly precarious economic position

effect: a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause

Part of speech: noun: the lethal effects of hard drugs

Planet: a celestial body distinguished from the fixed stars by having an apparent motion of its own (including the moon and sun), especially with reference to its supposed influence on people and events.

Part of speech: noun: We live in a planet caled Earth.

untreated sewage: wastewater which contains harmful waterborne pathogens and bacteria and which has not yet gone through a sewage treatment plant

Part of speech: noun: Thery have an untreated sewage.

Solid waste: any material that is discarded by being: Abandoned

Part of speech: noun: There is many solid waste in the word.

Overfishing: deplete the stock of fish in (a body of water) by too much fishing.

Part of speech: noun: this part of the Mediterranean is terribly overfished

Greenhouse gas:gases in Earth's atmosphere that trap heat.

Part of speech: noun: They let sunlight pass through the atmosphere, but they prevent the heat that the sunlight brings from leaving the atmosphere

Global warming: a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.

Part of speech: The global warming may kill the humans.

fossil fuel: a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

Part of speech: noun: I use fossil fuel.

endangered species: a species of animal or plant that is seriously at risk of extinction.

Part of speech: noun: special collections of rare and endangered species from Crete

Deforestation: the action of clearing a wide area of trees.

Part of speech: noun: a key aim is to try to halt widespread deforestation in the Amazon

Coasta flooding: a flood that occurs when (often low-lying) land that is usually dry is flooded with seawater

Part of speech: noun: Yesterday they was a coasta flooding.

Climate change: a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of f

Part of speech: noun: There is many climate changes.

Air pollution: the presence in or introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.

Part of speech: noun: in my city there is many air pollution.

Acid rain: rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gases from which con

Part of speech: noun: Today i learn what is a acid rain.