"environmental emergencies" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to any sudden and unexpected events or situations that pose a threat to the environment, such as natural disasters, oil spills, or chemical leaks. Example: The government has set up a task force to handle potential environmental emergencies, such as severe storms and forest fires.
One of the Coast Guard units on the scene will be the Atlantic Strike Team, which responds to environmental emergencies.
In recent years, the Peruvian government has declared environmental emergencies in all four headwaters of the Amazon.
They reveal the systems that govern their sites: the effect of Germany's past on its future at the Reichstag, environmental emergencies in Biscayne Bay.
ConocoPhillips, the US oil firm currently being blamed for a spill the size of London in China's Bohai Sea, complained four years ago that its Chinese partner was hampering preparations for environmental emergencies.
The law also provides for greater environmental transparency and stipulates that air pollution following environmental emergencies such as the disaster at Tianjin should be monitored and the details made public.
Over the past year, the Peruvian government has declared three environmental emergencies in large areas of rainforest near the oil field after finding dangerous levels of pollution on indigenous territories.
Sometimes the focus is an environmental emergency instead of basic research.
Along with the ongoing conflict, Somalis also face an environmental emergency thanks to deforestation.
In Europe, by contrast, "there was much more public support for environmental leadership in the absence of an acute environmental emergency," says Lee.
We are in a global environmental emergency, but we are behaving as if incremental improvements to "business as usual" will do.
The Chilean government has suspended much heavy industry and taken cars off the road in the country's capital to curb an environmental emergency in there.
