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Environment, Ecology & Climate Change Flashcards

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Biotechnologies

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Biotechnologies

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A supply

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Approvisionnement

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A weed-killer

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Un herbicide

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A crop

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Une récolte

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Factory farming

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L’élevage industriel

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A shortage

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Une pénurie

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Farming subsidies

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Les subventions agricoles

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Genetically Modified Organisms = GMOs

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OGM

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A biotech product

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Un produit transgénique

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Cross-breeding

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Le croisement d’espèces

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A breed

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Une espèce / race

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Bioethics

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La bioéthique

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A risk assessment test

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Un test de dangerosité

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Flexible fuels

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Les polycarburants

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A nuclear power plant

A nuclear power station

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Une centrale nucléaire

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Tidal energy = wave energy

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L’énergie marémotrice

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A reservoir

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Un lac de retenue

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Depletion

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L’épuisement (des ressources)

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Fracking

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La fracturation hydraulique

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Hydrocarbons

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Les hydrocarbures

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An agricultural engineer

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Un ingénieur agronome

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Agrochemicals

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L’agrochimie

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Manure / compost

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Le fumier / le composte

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The yield

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Le rendement

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Battery farming

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L’élevage en batteries

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Overproduction

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Le surproduction

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The Common Agricultural Policy

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La Politique Agricole Commune

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Genetic engineering, bioengineering

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Les manipulations génétiques

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Selective breeding

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La culture sélective

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Gene-splicing

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L’épiage génétique

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A strain

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Une souche

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Conventional crops

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Les cultures traditionnelles

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Fossil fuels

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Les énergies fossiles

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Biofuels

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Les biocarburants

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Wind energy

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L’énergie éolienne

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A dam

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Un barrage

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Coal

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Le charbon

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Oil

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Le pétrole

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Shale oi, shale gas

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L’huile de schiste, le gaz de schiste

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An oil refinery

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Une raffinerie

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A rig

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Une plate-forme

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A pipeline

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Un oléoduc, un gazoduc

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Ore

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Le minerai

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A power station

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Une centrale thermique

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The electric grid, the power grid

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Le réseau électrique

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A provider

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Un fournisseur

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A bulb

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Une ampoule

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Sustainability

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La durabilité

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Soil erosions

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L’érosion des sols

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The ozone layer

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La couche d’ozone

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Nuclear fallout

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Les retombées radioactives

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A polluter (person)

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Un polluant

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A climate scientist

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Un climatologue

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A bicycle-sharing system

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Un système de vélos en libre-service

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Icefield, ice floe

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La banquise

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Above / below sea lever

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Au-dessus / en-dessous du niveau de la mer

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The greenhouse effect

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L’effet de serre

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Low-energy lightbulbs

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Des ampoules basse consommation

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Groundwater

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La nappe phréatique

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A weather balloon

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Un ballon sonde

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A well

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Un puits

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A barrel

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Un baril

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A quarry

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Une carrière

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A cooling tower

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Une tour de refroidissement

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A subscriber

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Un abonné

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A double-glazing window

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Le double vitrage

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Sustainable development

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Le développement durable

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The depletion

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L’appauvrissement

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Acid rains

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Pluies acides

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Asbestos

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L’amiante

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The tolerance threshold

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Le seuil de tolérance

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A pollutant (product)

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Un polluant

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A rise in sea level

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Une élévation du niveau de la mer

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A glacier

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Un glacier

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Greenhouse gases

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Les gaz à effet de serre

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Greenhouse gas emissions

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Les émissions de gaz à effet de serre

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Carbon dioxide, CO2

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Le dioxyde de carbone

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Exhaust fumes

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Les gaz d’échappement

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Rain patterns

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Régime des précipitations

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The polar icecap

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La calotte glaciaire

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Fresh water

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L’eau douce

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A green tax

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Une taxe verte

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A polar bear

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Un ours polaire

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A weather station

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Une station météorologique

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Global warming

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Le réchauffement de la planète

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Smog

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Le brouillard urbain polluant

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Waste

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Déchets

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An oil spill

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Une marée noire

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Sea water

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Eau de mer

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Overconsumption

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La surconsommation

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The burning of fossil fuels

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La combustion d’énergies fossiles

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Climate science, climatology

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La climatologie

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A rise in temperatures

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Une augmentation des températures

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Poisoning

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L’intoxication, la contamination

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A landfill = a dump = a tip

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Une décharge

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Organic

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Biologique

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Renewable

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Renouvelable

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Onshore (platform)

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Côtière

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Energy-efficient

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Économique en énergie

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Battery-powered

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A batteries

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Harmful

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Nocif

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Convenient

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Commode, pratique

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Noxious

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Nocif

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Carcinogenic

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Cancérigène

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Foul-smelling

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Malodorant

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Cost-effective

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Rentable, efficace

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Non-renewable

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Non renouvelable

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Offshore

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En mer

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Fuel-efficient

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Économique en carburant

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Unpredictable

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Imprévisible

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Harmless

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Inoffensif

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Breathing

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Respiratoire

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Lethal

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Mortel

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Disposable

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Jetable

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To yield

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Produire, rapporter

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To tamper with

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Altérer, trafiquer

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To pull up crops

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Arracher des cultures

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To be suspicious of

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Se méfier de

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To assuage fears

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Apaiser les craintes

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To spray

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Pulvériser

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To farm

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Exploiter (agriculture)

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To ban

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Interdire

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To carry out an experiment

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Faire une expérience

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To fuel

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Alimenter, ravitailler

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To bury

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Enfouir, enterrer

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To curb

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Réduire

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To introduce a carbon tax

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Instaurer une taxe carbone

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To stop wasting energy

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Arrêter de gaspiller l’énergie

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To flood

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Inonder

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To cut, to curb carbon emissions

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Réduire les émissions de carbone

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To monitor temperatures

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Surveiller l’évolution des températures

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To emit = to release carbon dioxide

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Émettre = dégager du CO2

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To cause damage

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Causer des dégâts

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To cycle to work

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Aller au travail en bicyclette

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To be at risk

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Être menacé

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To run out of something

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Être à court de quelque chose

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To switch off

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Éteindre

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To process waste

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Traiter des déchets

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To switch off electrical appliances

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Éteindre les appareils électriques

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To foul

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Polluer, souiller

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To spill

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Déverser, répandre

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To reduce one’s carbon imprint

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Réduire son empreinte carbone

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To thaw, to melt

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Fondre

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To inhale

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Respirer

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To cap

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Plafonner

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To forecast

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Prévoir

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To emit carbon dioxide

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Émettre du dioxyde de carbone

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To come clean about something

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Avouer quelque chose

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To add fuel to the flames

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Verser de l’huile sur le feu

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To chase rainbows

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Être en quête de l’impossible

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Come rain of shine

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Qu’il pleuve, qu’il vente ou qu’il neige

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To look on the sunny side

«Every cloud has a silver lining»

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Voir le bon côté des choses

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To be skating on thin ice, to be on a slippery slope

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S’aventurer sur un terrain glissant

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A rain check

To promise to postpone an event to later

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Remettre quelque chose à plus tard

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To enter the food chain

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Entrer dans la chaîne alimentaire

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