Environmental

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  environmental \environmental\ adj.
     1. of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental
        factors.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as,


        environmental pollution; environmental disaster;
        environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
              THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species,
              suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which
              spreads over kilometres of coral reefs.
              This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural
              environmental disaster resulting from environmental
              negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the
              cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a
              natural event which has the potential to occur
              periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara.
                                                    --Michael
                                                    Borowitzka
                                                    ("Natural
                                                    event spawns
                                                    environmental
                                                    disaster" in
                                                    Murdoch News,
                                                    October 12,
                                                    1995)

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  environmental
       adj 1: concerned with the ecological effects of altering the
              environment; "environmental pollution"
       2: of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings;
          "environmental factors"