italiano · B1 · vocabulary · 4 minutes
Environment and climate
Discuss causes, effects, and practical environmental responses.
Understand the choice
Environmental discussion becomes precise when it distinguishes weather events from climate trends and individual sorting from public energy policy. Link each problem to a cause and response.
Core rule: Ridurre i rifiuti, fare la raccolta differenziata, risparmiare energia, and proteggere l’ambiente are common collocations.
Notice it in context
La città riduce i rifiuti e investe nelle energie rinnovabili.
The city reduces waste and invests in renewable energy.
Rifiuti is plural object; nelle is in + le before plural energie; rinnovabili agrees.
Il riciclaggio limita l’inquinamento e il consumo di risorse.
Recycling limits pollution and resource consumption.
Riciclaggio and inquinamento name process and problem.
La siccità aumenta il rischio di alluvioni improvvise.
Drought increases the risk of sudden floods.
Siccità is cause; alluvioni is a possible consequence.
What to remember
- Raccolta differenziata is household waste sorting.
- Tempo is weather at a moment; clima is the long-term pattern.
Common trap: Do not use ecologia as a synonym for every environmental action; it is the scientific field.