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| Terms for subject Environment (24829 entries) |
| Wolle | wool (A textile fiber made from raw wool characterized by absorbency, resiliency and insulation) | |
| Wollkuskus | grey cuscus | |
| Wollstaub | shoddy | |
| World Wide Web | World Wide Web (A graphical, interactive, hypertext information system that is cross-platform and can be run locally or over the global Internet. The Web consists of Web servers offering pages of information to Web browsers who view and interact with the pages. Pages can contain formatted text, background colors, graphics, as well as audio and video clips. Simple links in a Web page can cause the browser to jump to a different part of the same page or to a page on a Web server halfway around the world. Web pages can be used to send mail, read news, and download files. A Web address is called a URL) | |
| Wrack | wreck (The hulk of a wrecked or stranded ship; a ship dashed against rocks or land and broken or otherwise rendered useless) | |
| Wurfscheider | thrower separator | |
| Würgfalke | saker falcon | |
| Wurzel | root (The absorbing and anchoring organ of a vascular plant; it bears neither leaves nor flowers and is usually subterranean) | |
| Wurzelgemüse | root crop (Plants which store edible material in a root, corm or tuber; root crops used as food vegetables or fodder include carrots, parsnips, swedes and turnips; starchy root crops include potatoes, cassavas and yams) | |
| Wurzelknöllchen | root nodule | |
| Wurzelknöllchen | root tubercle | |
| Wüste | desert (A wide, open, comparatively barren tract of land with few forms of life and little rainfall) | |
| Wüste | desert varnish | |
| Wüsten-Konvention | United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa | |
| Wüstenausbreitung | desertification (1. The development of desert conditions as a result of human activity or climatic changes. 2. The process of land damage which allows the soil to spread like a desert in arid and semi-arid regions. There is a loss of vegetative cover and the soil deteriorates in texture, nutrient content and fertility. Desertification affects the lives of three-quarters of the world's population, 70% of all drylands and one quarter of the total land area of the planet. There are many reasons for desertification, but the majority are caused by human activities, overgrazing, deforestation, poor land management and over-exploitation. Agenda 21 states that the priority in combating desertification should be establishing preventive measures for lands that are not yet, or are only slightly, degraded) | |
| Wüstenausbreitungskontrolle | desertification control | |
| Wüstenausbreitungskontrolle | desertification control (Remedial and preventive actions adopted against desertification include irrigation, planting of trees and grasses, the erection of fences to secure sand dunes, and a careful management of water resources) | |
| Wüstenbildung | Desertification | |
| Wüstenfuchs | fennec fox | |
| Wüstenklima | desert climate |