List of environmental topics (B)
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This is a list of environmental topics. They relate to the effect of human activity on the environment.
- B-Reactor ("plutonium production reactor") (in Washington state in the US)
- Bachelor of Environmental Studies
- Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (see under Environment)
- balance of nature
- Bali Communiqué (involving climate change)
- Bali roadmap (involving climate change)
- Bambi Effect
- Banksia Environmental Foundation (in Australia)
- Basel Convention (Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal) (in force from 1992)
- Beautification
- bees and toxic chemicals (about effects of pesticides and ethanol on bees, and about bee production of toxic honey)
- beetle bank (in agriculture)
- Bering Sea Arbitration (closing a fishery dispute) (see "protection of the fur seal" in paragraph 2)
- (Bern Convention [conservation]: see) Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (in force from
- Bhopal disaster (in 1984) (in India)
- bicycle trailers
- bicycle-friendly
- bicycling in Chicago (in the US)
- Big Five Game (large mammals of Africa)
- Big Green Gathering (in the UK)
- big-box store
- bike lane debate
- Bikini atomic experiments
- (Bikini atomic tests: see) Operation Crossroads
- bioaccumulation
- bioacoustics
- BioBlitz ("24-hour inventory")
- (BioCheck[TM] Powder Screening Test Kit: see) hazardous powders testing kit
- biochemical engineering (see "water treatment" in preamble)
- biochemical oxygen demand (biological oxygen demand) (BOD)
- biocide
- Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (in the US)
- (biodegradability of polymers: see) plastic (see under The environment, especially under Biodegradable Plastics)
- biodegradability prediction
- biodegradation
- biodiesel
- biodiesel processor
- biodiesel production
- biodiesel recipe
- biodigester
- biodiversity (biological diversity)
- Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)
- biodiversity hotspot
- biodiversity of New Caledonia
- biodiversity of New Zealand
- (biodome: see) Montreal Biodome (in Canada)
- biodynamic agriculture (biodynamic farming)
- biodynamic wine
- bioethics (see paragraph 1 under Definition and scope)
- biofilter
- biofouling (biological fouling)
- biofuel
- (biognosis) bionics (biomimetics) (biomimicry)
- biohacker
- biohacking
- Biohazard (about Soviet biological weapon program)
- bioherbicide
- BioHome ("a small facility created by NASA")
- bioindicator
- biointensive ("an organic agricultural system")
- (bioinvader: see) invasive species
- bioirrigation
- bioleaching
- biological agent
- (biological corridor) wildlife corridor
- biological dispersal
- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (in Brazil)
- biological engineering (biosystems engineering) (bioengineering)
- biological fuel cell
- biological hazard (biohazard)
- (biological oxygen demand) biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
- biological pest control
- biological warfare (germ warfare)
- Biological Wastewater Processor (built by NASA)
- Biological Weapons Convention (Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological [Biological] and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction) (BWC)
- biomarker
- biomass
- (biomass fuel) biofuel
- (biomass gas) biogas (digester gas) (swamp gas) (marsh gas)
- biomass gasification
- biomass to liquid (BTL)
- Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) (in the Netherlands)
- biomethanation
- bionanotechnology
- Bioneers
- biopiracy
- bioplastic
- Biopreparat (in the USSR) (organization comprising all biological weapons programs)
- bioprospecting
- biorefinery
- bioregional democracy (bioregional state)
- bioremediation
- BIOS - Biological Innovation for Open Society (BiOS) (in biotechnology)
- biosafety
- biosafety level
- Biosafety protocol - see Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- biosecurity
- biosecurity protocol
- bioshelter
- biosignature
- biosolids
- biosphere
- Biosphere 2 ("a manmade closed ecological system") (in Arizona in the US)
- biosphere reserve (see also lists of biosphere reserves under List of B in list of environmental topics lists)
- biosphere reserves of India
- biostasis
- biostatistics (see under Applications of biostatistics)
- biostimulation
- bioswale
- (Biotech Directive 98/44/EC) directive on the patentability of biotechnological inventions
- biotechnology (see also list of biotechnology companies)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) (in the UK)
- bioterror
- bioterrorism
- bioturbation (see "nuclear weapon testing" under Modelling bioturbation)
- BioWillie (a company producing a biodiesel fuel)
- blue ice (aircraft)
- Boise greenbelt (in Idaho in the US)
- Bonn Agreement (environment)
- bottled water
- bottom fishing
- bottom trawling
- Breeding Bird Survey
- Brent Spar (Brent E) (an oil storage and tanker loading buoy)
- Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System (planned) (in Mumbai in India)
- British Association of Nature Conservationists (BANC)
- British Ecological Society (BES)
- (British Natural History Museum: see) Natural History Museum
- British Naturalists' Association
- (British Nuclear Fuels plc) BNFL
- British nuclear tests at Maralinga (in Australia)
- British Society for Ecological Medicine
- British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
- British Wind Energy Association
- brominated flame-retardant
- Buffalo Commons
- buffer zone
- Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust (in the UK)
- built environment
- Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (in the US)
- (Bureau of Reclamation: see) United States Bureau of Reclamation (formerly the United States Reclamation Service)
- bush regeneration ("practiced in Australia")
- bushmeat
- business action on climate change
- Buy Nothing Day (see "wasteful consumption habits" in paragraph 1)
- by-catch
