1. What kind of illegal dumping in Ivory Coast has led to at least ten deaths and renewed calls from environmentalists for tighter controls over international waste shipments?
TOXIC WASTE
2. According to the marine scientists, what is threatening the crucial component of the ocean biodiversity?
GLOBAL WARMING
3. According to an expert conference in London, what changes poses an "an immediate, growing and grave threat" to health and security around the world?
CLIMATE
4. Based on WHOI researchers Valier Galy and Timothy Eglinton, what kind of carbon is found to be resided in the basin by using radiocarbon dating?
ORGANIC
5. What has become a major threat to humans and biodiversity across an "arc of deforestation" in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru?
WILDFIRE
6. Montreul Protocal was introduced in the year 1987 and signed up by 120 countries. What chemical compound do these countries agree to reduce by the year 2000?
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON
7. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have developed a new technology. What kind of material does this technology capable to remove from contaminated water?
RADIOACTIVE
8. The UK produces 13 billion of cans each year and if you place them end to end, they would stretch three times to the moon. What type of cans are they?
STEEL
9. What type of oil the Sea Empress spilled off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales in February 1996?
CRUDE
10. 8% of which gas emitted from fossil fuels in 1990 is equivalent to the calculated carbon lost by UK soil each year since 1978?
CARBON DIOXIDE
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