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Alternative: One of two or more available possibilities.

Noun: Audiobooks are an interesting alternative to reading.

Planet: A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.

Noun: No generation has the right to pollute the planet.

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

Noun: Nearly one fifth of the world's land is threatened with desertification

Deserts: A person's worthiness or entitlement to reward or punishment.

Noun: The penal system fails to punish offenders in accordance with their deserts

Expanding: Become or make larger or more extensive.

Verb: Their business expanded into other hotels and properties

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

Noun: A serious risk of flooding

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

Noun: The country's increasingly precarious economic position

Effect: A change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Noun: The lethal effects of hard drugs

Untreated sewage: Untreated sewage refers to wastewater which contains harmful waterborne pathogens and bacteria and which has not yet gone through a sewage treatment plant.

Noun: Marine biologists are concerned about the effects of untreated sewage that is flowing into coastal waters.

Solid waste: A solid waste is any material that is discarded by being: Abandoned: The term abandoned means thrown away.

Noun: Solid waste includes garbage, construction debris, commercial refuse, sludge from water supply or waste treatment plants.

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

Verb: This part of the Mediterranean is terribly overfished.

Greenhouse gas: A gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation, e.g., carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons.

Noun: The largest source of greenhouse gas contributing to global warming is the burning of fossil fuels.

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.

Noun: To stop the meltdown we must slow global warming.

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

Noun: A major cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels to create energy.

Endangered species: A species of animal or plant that is seriously at risk of extinction.

Noun: The giant panda is an endangered species.

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

Noun: A key aim is to try to halt widespread deforestation in the Amazon

Coastal flooding: When a coastal process—such as waves, tides, storm surge, or heavy rainfall from coastal storms.

Noun: The authors say this raises the projection for the number of people affected each year by coastal flooding by the end of the century from 360 million to 4

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.

Noun: Climate change is a major environmental issue.

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

Noun: Air pollution in the city had reached four times the acceptable levels.

Acid Rain: Rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes.

Noun: Acid rain has caused severe erosion on the hillside