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waldsterben

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waldsterben [ˈwɔːldˌstɜːbən]
n Ecology
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
[from German Wald forest + sterben to die]


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And one might consider the fine work of Bruggemeier who has shown that the hugely ballyhooed phenomenon of Waldsterben ("Forest Death") in Europe was primarily a delusion from environmental hysteria.
I immediately snatched up her CD Waldsterben (Moebius), and it has quickly become my musical security blanket.
This is different from the outright forest death or Waldsterben from sulfur' dioxide that has claimed thousands of acres along Germany's border with Poland and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (Czechoslovakia).
 
 
 
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