Choose the right article: But if you are concerned about air pollution, there is ______ free and easy to use service that allows you to check levels in your area.
Choose the right article: Defra provides ____ detailed and easy-to-understand information on air pollution, completely free of charge.
Choose the right article: The air is certainly a lot cleaner today than in ______ days of the smogs of the 1950's.
Choose the right article: These days, ____ many people are concerned about air pollution and whether it might affect their health.
Choose the right article: This information can be particularly important to people with medical conditions which _____ air pollution may make worse.
Choose the right article: ______ Government and the devolved administrations' Air Pollution Information Service is managed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Choose the right article: _______ fact is that most of the time, air pollution levels are low.
Choose the right conjunction: At the same time, rural England is a place _______ people live, and rural residents have similar concerns about work, education, health and crime as have people in urban areas have.
Choose the right conjunction: England Rural Development Programme (ERDP) is already proving its value, _________ inevitably the foot and mouth disease outbreak affected what could be achieved in 2001.
Choose the right conjunction: The greenhouse effect is a naturally-occurring phenomenon without ________ the Earth would be about 30° C colder.
Choose the right conjunction: The other members of the review group have been Edward Walker-Arnott, ______ is a former senior partner of Herbert Smith, solicitors, and is currently a Governor of the Wellcome Trust.
Choose the right conjunction: ________ of the absence of the greenhouse effect, the Earth would be clod and life would be impossible.
Choose the right conjunction: ________ the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation there is a massive increase in the amount of carbon-dioxide released into the atmosphere.
Choose the right conjunction: _________ there is no room for complacency, our export markets are re-opening and we have relaxed animal movements.
Choose the right conjunction: ___________ the Trust's Council has done a marvellous job over the years, the requirements of a modern charity trustee body simply cannot be met by a group of 52 people.
Choose the right form of the Participle: England and Wales are unique in _______ on the private sector to own and deliver this essential service and meet environmental, economic and social objectives together.
Choose the right form of the Participle: Our water industry is lead by example at an international level by _______ market-based mechanisms to achieve fair pricing for consumers and business and high environmental standards.
Choose the right form of the Participle: Over the last five years, one-and a-half million households have been removed from this category of __________ more than 10 per cent of income on heating.
Choose the right form of the Participle: The work of the Carbon Trust, funded by DEFRA will become increasingly important in ________ business and the public sector towards low carbon energy solutions.
Choose the right form of the Participle: The work of the Carbon Trust, _______ by DEFRA will become increasingly important.
Choose the right form of the Participle: There are potentially enormous financial and carbon savings to be _______ from energy efficiency across the UK economy.
Choose the right form of the Participle: We have set out a range of possible measures to get the Combined Heat and Power industry __________ again.
Choose the right form of the Participle: We need new policies to stop waste ___________ in the first place, to increase recycling, to find new markets for recycled products and to develop new disposal technologies.
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Put in the right preposition: A programme ______ implementing this has been prepared and is regularly updated.
Put in the right preposition: An internal Environmental Audit was initiated in 1990 to review all the Trust's policies and practices _____ their actual and potential environmental impacts.
Put in the right preposition: Current climate models predict that global temperatures could warm from between 1.4 to 5.8°C _____ the next 100 years, depending on the amounts of greenhouse gases emitted and the sensitivity of the climate system.
Put in the right preposition: DEFRA has a role to play with others in providing all citizens ____ access to healthy food, air and water; and safe places to live and work.
Put in the right preposition: EPA employs 18,000 people ____ the country, including our headquarters offices in Washington, DC, 10 regional offices, and more than a dozen labs.
Put in the right preposition: EPA is responsible for researching and setting national standards _____ a variety of environmental programs.
Put in the right preposition: EPA works to develop and enforce regulations that implement environmental laws enacted ____ Congress.
Put in the right preposition: EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard ____ the natural environment.
Put in the right preposition: Integral with this investment has been an innovatory, environmentally-benign approach to problem-solving _____ many related areas of management.
Put in the right preposition: Often, we know too little about the social impacts of our work and we must improve the knowledge base ______ this as we are doing for rural areas.
Put in the right preposition: Participating businesses can make '___ house' emission reductions or they can buy tradable emission allowances as a way of meeting their targets.
Put in the right preposition: Risks come _____ many forms.
Put in the right preposition: The EPA was assigned the daunting task ___ repairing the damage already done to the natural environment and to establish new criteria to guide Americans in making a cleaner environment a reality.
Put in the right preposition: The Government and the devolved administrations have therefore set a domestic goal ____ go further than the Kyoto commitment and cut the UK's emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2010.
Put in the right preposition: The National Trust has prepared a Statement of Environmental Principles, based _____ the core purpose of the Trust laid down in the 1907 National Trust Act.
Put in the right preposition: The Trust has already invested considerably ______ improving standards of property management for energy conservation, sewage treatment, control of farm effluents and water conservation.
Put in the right preposition: The Trust is involved _____ a wide range of other partners in environmental projects and research - NGOs, business, University Departments, professional institutes, Government agencies - at both UK and European levels.
Put in the right preposition: We are also responsible for assessing the risks to people and the environment ____ pollutants and environmental impacts such as climate change where humans may be accelerating or causing the change.
Put in the right preposition: We are committed ___ sound science underpinning our risk assessments.
Put in the right preposition: With other departments, local authorities and private businesses, we must ensure the continuity of essential supplies of food and water ____ case of terrorist attack or war.
Put in the right preposition: ____ do this we must understand and anticipate risks and hazards, weigh priorities and have credible contingency plans.
Put in the right preposition: ____ July of 1970, the White House and Congress worked together to establish the EPA.
Put in the right preposition: _____ effectiveness, safety and environmental impact in mind, we examine agricultural pesticides, veterinary products and novel (such as genetically-modified) crops.
Put in the right word: An arboretum is a place where trees, __________ and herbaceous plants are grown for scientific and educational purposes.
Put in the right word: At 1,500 acres, ____________ is one of the largest urban parks in the country.
Put in the right word: Before users carry out an activity that may need a________ , we can offer advice look at ways of reducing that activity’s effect on the environment.
Put in the right word: But some of the __________ is trapped by greenhouse gases, which warm the atmosphere, and reflect heat back down to Earth.
Put in the right word: But some scientists say that increased emissions of greenhouse gases are disturbing the balance of this complex system, causing______________.
Put in the right word: DEFRA brings all aspects of____________, rural, farming and food production policy together for the first time.
Put in the right word: Elsewhere, cavities in trees provide nesting space for owls and other_______.
Put in the right word: EPA leads the nation's environmental_______, research, education and assessment efforts.
Put in the right word: EPA works to develop and enforce regulations that implement environmental _______ enacted by Congress.
Put in the right word: Following Kyoto, the UK's target is to ______ its emissions by 12.5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012.
Put in the right word: Food and cover species of plant life can be noted, such as_____________, common privet and seed-producing grasses.
Put in the right word: However, the burning of fossil fuels and ___________ has led to a massive increase in the amount of carbon-dioxide released into the atmosphere.
Put in the right word: It is________ , or almost so, because the old leaves drop about the same time as the new leaves appear in the spring.
Put in the right word: One of DEFRA’s objectives is to protect and improve the rural, urban, marine and global environment and conserve and enhance_________________.
Put in the right word: Our remit is the pursuit of_____________- weaving together economic, social and environmental concerns.
Put in the right word: Our vision of the future is of a world in which _________ and environmental degradation are recognized and addressed by all nations.
Put in the right word: Reborn as the New Orleans Botanical Garden in the early 1980s, today's garden contains over 2,000 varieties of ________ from all over the world set among the nation's largest stand of mature live oaks.
Put in the right word: Some scientists say that increased emissions of ____________ have contributed to a manmade rise in global temperatures and sea level.
Put in the right word: The aim of DEFRA is a sustainable development through _________ sustainable farming, fishing, food, water and other industries that meet consumers’ requirements.
Put in the right word: The impact of________ , for example, is already beginning to transform our lives.
Put in the right word: The mission of the New Orleans ____________ is to cultivate, promote, and inspire the knowledge, love, and appreciation of plants through educational programs and exhibits.
Put in the right word: The New Orleans Botanical Garden strives to be the center of ___________ excellence for the Gulf South.
Put in the right word: The ozone hole is a well-defined, large-scale destruction of the ____________ over Antarctica that occurs each Antarctic spring.
Put in the right word: The Park is home to the largest collection of mature __________ in the world, some several hundred years old.
Put in the right word: The site contains several theme gardens containing aquatics, ornamental trees and shrubs, ____________, and a recently renovated Conservatory.
Put in the right word: The ____________ is defined as the area having less than 220 Dobson Units (DU) of ozone in the overhead column (i.e., between the ground and space).
Put in the right word: The __________________ is a naturally-occurring phenomenon.
Put in the right word: These range from major industrial authorisations, such as a licence to __________ water from rivers, down to recreational ones such as fishing licences.
Put in the right word: The_____________, negotiated by more than 160 nations, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting legally binding emissions reduction targets for developed countries.
Put in the right word: Two hundred years ago City Park was a swampy _______ forest, home of Accolapissa and Biloxi tribes who traded by dugout canoe along the banks of Bayou St. John.
Put in the right word: Unlike global__________, the ozone hole occurs only over Antarctica.
Put in the right word: Water vapour, carbon-dioxide and methane form a natural ___________ of air around the Earth.
Put in the right word: We aim to be the world leader in __________ the environment and are among the international leaders on climate change, in the reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and in the conservation of endangered species.
Put in the right word: We are developing ideas for whole farm plans to reduce environmental _______________ and bureaucracy.
Put in the right word: We are looking for new measures for global _________ conservation at a series of international conferences in autumn 2002.
Put in the right word: We issue various__________, licences, consents and registrations.
Put in the right word: We will carry out a review of the best means of reducing water _______ from agriculture, one of the major sources of diffuse pollution alongside urban areas.
Put in the right word: Where national __________ are not met, EPA can issue sanctions and take other steps to assist the states and tribes in reaching the desired levels of environmental quality.
Put in the right word: ___________ is designed to allow businesses to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases in the most economically efficient way.