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  • K.01 - Natural resources/Raw materials     ↑ top
  • K.02 - Fauna/Animals     ↑ top
  • K.03 - Flora/Plants     ↑ top
  • K.04 - Climate     ↑ top
    • K.04.01 Climate, general
    • K.04.02 Climatic zones/Climatic periods
    • K.04.03 Air, Wind, Precipitation
  • K.05 - Earth/Physical geography     ↑ top
  • K.06 - Outer space     ↑ top
    • K.06.01 Outer space, general
      • Astronomical units 🔎
      • Atmosphere 🔎
      • Lower atmosphere 🔎
      • Outer space 🔎
      • Ozone layer 🔎
      • Terrestrial space 🔎
      • Upper atmosphere 🔎
    • K.06.02 Planets/Celestial bodies
  • K.07 - Environment/Ecology     ↑ top
    • K.07.01 Environment/Ecology, general
      • Air quality 🔎
      • Balance of ecological impacts 🔎
      • Biodiversity 🔎
      • Catastrophes 🔎
      • Ecological balance 🔎
      • Ecological catastrophes 🔎
      • Ecological security 🔎
      • Ecological systems 🔎
      • Environment/ecology 🔎
      • Environmental assets 🔎
      • Environmental damage 🔎
      • Environmental factors 🔎
      • Environmental hazards 🔎
      • Environmental impact 🔎
      • Environmental technology 🔎
      • Environmental tolerance 🔎
      • Global challenges 🔎
      • Nature 🔎
      • Nature reserves 🔎
      • Physical living conditions 🔎
      • Quality of the environment 🔎
      • Regeneration (environment) 🔎
      • Toxicity 🔎
      • Utilization of the environment 🔎
      • Water quality 🔎
    • K.07.02 Natural occurences
    • K.07.03 Environmental damage, general
      • Behaviour causing environmental damage 🔎
      • Causes of environmental damage 🔎
      • Changes in the ecological balance 🔎
      • Climate change 🔎
      • Consequences of environmental damage 🔎
      • Damage to human health 🔎
      • Dangerous products 🔎
      • Decrease/change in vegetation 🔎
      • Decrease/illness in animal population 🔎
      • Endangered species 🔎
      • Environmental damage perpetrators 🔎
      • Environmental impact 🔎
      • Environmental warfare 🔎
      • Global warming 🔎
      • Industrial pollution 🔎
      • Long-term damage 🔎
      • Noise pollution 🔎
      • Nuclear winter 🔎
      • Pesticides 🔎
      • Radiation damage 🔎
      • Radioactive contamination 🔎
      • Radioactive fallout 🔎
      • Reduction of emissions 🔎
      • Toxins/pollutants 🔎
      • Wildlife exploitation 🔎
    • K.07.04 Environmental damage to the soil
      • Artificial landscape changes 🔎
      • Chemical waste 🔎
      • Damage to food/feedstuff 🔎
      • Deforestation 🔎
      • Desertification 🔎
      • Destruction of forests 🔎
      • Dumping (waste disposal) 🔎
      • Forest damage 🔎
      • Heavy metal pollution 🔎
      • Oil pollution 🔎
      • Overexploitation 🔎
      • Overfertilization 🔎
      • Radioactive waste 🔎
      • Silting 🔎
      • Soil destruction or contamination 🔎
      • Soil erosion 🔎
      • Toxic waste 🔎
      • Waste 🔎
    • K.07.05 Environmental damage to the air
    • K.07.06 Environmental damage to the water
      • Changes in water supply/water level 🔎
      • Heavy metal pollution 🔎
      • Increase in water temperature 🔎
      • Marine pollution 🔎
      • Oil pollution 🔎
      • Overfishing 🔎
      • Pesticides 🔎
      • Pollutant emission 🔎
      • Waste water 🔎
      • Water pollution 🔎
  • K.08 - Environmental protection     ↑ top
    • K.08.01 Environmental protection, general
      • Animal protection 🔎
      • Climate protection 🔎
      • Coast protection/river regulation 🔎
      • Ecological farming 🔎
      • Environmental controls 🔎
      • Environmental management 🔎
      • Environmental protection 🔎
      • Forest conservation and afforestation 🔎
      • Game management 🔎
      • Global commons 🔎
      • International environmental protection 🔎
      • Landscape protection/conservation 🔎
      • National environmental protection 🔎
      • Natural preserves 🔎
      • Natural resources management 🔎
      • Nature reserves 🔎
      • Nature/wildlife conservation 🔎
      • Plant protection 🔎
      • Protection of species 🔎
      • Regional environmental protection 🔎
      • Resource protection 🔎
      • Water protection 🔎
    • K.08.02 Environmental policy
      • Ecological movements 🔎
      • Environmental consciousness 🔎
      • Environmental debates 🔎
      • Environmental education 🔎
      • Environmental ethics 🔎
      • Environmental planning 🔎
      • Environmental policy 🔎
      • Environmental standards 🔎
      • International environment policy cooperation 🔎
      • International environmental policy 🔎
      • Ministries of environmental affairs 🔎
      • Polluter pays principle (environmental policy) 🔎
      • Prevention principle (environmental policy) 🔎
      • Public burden principle (environmental policy) 🔎
    • K.08.03 Legal, financial and economic aspects of environmental protection
      • Cross-border environmental damage 🔎
      • Economic problems of environmental protection 🔎
      • Emission rights (environmental assets) 🔎
      • Emissions trading 🔎
      • Environmental damage 🔎
      • Environmental law 🔎
      • Environmental protection charges 🔎
      • International environmental agreements 🔎
      • Legal problems of environmental protection 🔎
      • Utilization of the environment 🔎
    • K.08.04 Environmental protection technology/protection measures
      • CBRN protection 🔎
      • Decontamination 🔎
      • Disposal 🔎
      • Ecological production processes 🔎
      • Ecological products 🔎
      • Environmental industry 🔎
      • Environmental protection measures 🔎
      • Environmental restoration 🔎
      • Environmental technology 🔎
      • Final storage of radioactive waste 🔎
      • Interim storage of radioactive waste 🔎
      • Noise protection 🔎
      • Radiation protection 🔎
      • Sewage systems 🔎
      • Sewage/purification plants 🔎
      • Waste disposal 🔎
      • Waste gas cleaning 🔎
      • Waste water sewage 🔎