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| Terms for subject Environment (6310 entries) |
| aviosatiksme | air traffic (Aircraft moving in flight or on airport runways) | |
| aviosatiksmes likums | air traffic law (International rules and conventions relating to air transportation) | |
| aviosatiksmes noteikumi | air traffic regulation | |
| avots | resource (Any component of the environment that can be utilized by an organism) | |
| azbestcements | asbestos cement (A hardened mixture of asbestos fibers, Portland cement and water used in relatively thin slabs for shingles, wallboard and siding) | |
| azbests | asbestosis (A non-malignant progressive, irreversible, lung disease, characterized by diffuse fibrosis, resulting from the inhalation of asbestos fibers) | |
| azbests | asbestos (Generic name for a group of fibrous mineral silicates. It includes blue asbestos (crocidolite), white asbestos (chrysotile) and brown asbestos (amosite). After they are mined the asbestos fibres are separated from the rock and are spun into a cloth. When inhaled the fibres penetrate the lungs and the tissues of the bronchial tubes, resulting in asbestosis, a crippling lung disease. Asbestos also causes cancer of the lung and the gastro-intestinal tract, and mesothelioma, a malignant cancer of the inner lining of the chest. However, because it is a poor conductor of electricity and highly resistant to heat it has been widely used over the years in fire-fighting suits, and building and insulating materials. The fibrous form of several silicate minerals, at one time widely used for electrical and thermal insulation; the use of all forms of asbestos is now either banned or strictly controlled in many countries since it causes cancer) | |
| Āzija | Asia (The world's largest continent. It occupies the eastern part of the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent islands and is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains. Asia borders on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the largest peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ceylon; contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris and Euphrates) | |
| bads | famine (A severe shortage of food, as through crop failure or over population. It may be due to poor harvests following drought, floods, earthquake, war, social conflict, etc.) | |
| bagarēšana | dredging (Removing solid matter from the bottom of a water area) | |
| bagātināšana | enrichment (The process of increasing the abundance of a specified isotope in a mixture of isotopes. It is usually applied to an increase in the proportion of U-235, or the addition of Pu-239 to natural uranium for use in a nuclear reactor or weapon) | |
| bagātināts urāns | enriched uranium (Uranium whose concentration of uranium-235, which is able to sustain a nuclear chain reaction, is increased by removing uranium-238) | |
| bakteriālais slānis | bacterial bed (A device that removes some suspended solids from sewage. Air and bacteria decompose additional wastes filtering through the sand so that cleaner water drains from the bed) | |
| baktericīds | bactericide (An agent that destroys bacteria) | |
| baktērija | bacterium (Group of single-cell micro-organisms, the smallest of the living organisms. Some are vital to sustain life, while others are responsible for causing highly dangerous human diseases, such as anthrax, tetanus and tuberculosis. Bacteria are found everywhere, in the soil, water and air) | |
| bakterioloģija | bacteriology (The science and study of bacteria) | |
| bakterioloģiskais piesārņojums | bacteriological pollution (Contamination of water, soil and air with pathogen bacteria) | |
| Bali ceļvedis | Bali roadmap | |
| Bali rīcības plāns | Bali Action Plan | |
| balināšana | de-inking (Series of processes by which various types of printing inks are removed from paper fibre pulp during the pre-processing and recycling of recovered paper products. Particularly necessary where high quality and whiteness of the finished product are required) |