Environment Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Bristol dust n. So what is the best tyre to run in “Bristol Dust” (what Bristolians affectionately call gloopy winter mud) or the slippery Limestone and roots that the autumn and spring bring to Bristol? [English United Kingdom Environment Slang] [full cite] (May. 14, 2008)

Brookings effect n. Brookings, just north of the California border along the Oregon coast, is known for its sometimes very un-coastal weather that has come to be called the “Brookings effect.” [English Environment] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2008)

brooming n. “It had the very distinctive signs of an infestation,” said Garlock, Otsego Conservation District (OCD) forester, of the sickly tree’s symptoms. Most noticeable were clusters of small branches desperately forming on dying branches in a process called “brooming.” [English Biology Environment] [full cite] (Sep. 24, 2006)

brown hole n. That’s because Pueblo sits at the center of a geographic phenomenon that the locals refer to as a “banana belt” and weather service forecasters call the “brown hole.” “We call it the brown hole because during a serious winter storm, more often than not, the ground here is brown and dry when it’s covered in snow everywhere else,” said NWS meteorologist Steve Hodanish. [English Environment] [full cite] (Jan. 3, 2007)

brownfield n. The legislation offers incentives for the public and private redevelopment of former industrial sites (some are contaminated—also known as brownfields) into new housing and economic development opportunities. [English Construction & Buildings Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (May. 7, 2004)

brownfield n. The report supports modernization of smokestack industries and urges that those that are relocated be kept in “brownfield” areas where they will do less environmental damage and supply jobs in already industrialized regions. [English Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (May. 7, 2004)

brownfield n. Known as brownfields, these areas are defined by the USEPA as “abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.” [English Construction & Buildings Environment Urban Planning & Zoning] [full cite] (May. 7, 2004)

browse damage n. We conducted a study to evaluate the effects of the extent and season of simulated browse damage on the recovery of I-year-old loblolly pine seedlings under controlled conditions. [English Environment] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2006)

bubble line n. There was more than a glimmer of hope this year that Congress would finally ante up $5.5 million needed for a planned oxygen system to improve striped bass fishing at Thurmond Lake.…The proposed oxygen system, which anglers refer to as a “bubble line” that releases pure oxygen along miles of submerged pipes perforated with tiny holes, was designed to offer opportunities for striped bass to congregate in the Modoc area. [English Environment] [full cite] (Dec. 27, 2006)

bucket biologist n. The balance of nature in every lake is so fine that an ignorant bucket biologist has the potential to plunder and vandalize a fishery.…Bucket biologists are hard at work all over the country. Walleyes are being dumped into Montana lakes. Rainbow trout are destroying native brook trout fisheries in the East.…Bucket biologists are ignorant, selfish people. If professional biologists make mistakes—a case in point is the introduction of stripers at Lake McConaughy—how can the bomb-like buckets of amateurs not explode? [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Biology Environment] [full cite] (Sep. 1, 2006)

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