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| Indigenous peoples of Australia. |
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| Precipitation that has mixed with air pollution to produce rain that contains levels of acidity--often in the form of sulfuric acid--that are harmful to vegetation and aquatic life. |
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| Converting previously unforested land to forest by planting trees or seeds. |
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| Clustering together of economic activities at the scale of metropolitan areas or industrial subregions. |
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| Cost advantages that accrue to individual firms because of their location among functionally related activities. |
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| Children who have lost one or more parents to an AIDS related death. |
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| A unit for air quality measurement. |
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AOSIS
Alliance Of Small Island States |
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| Association of more than 40 low-lying, mostly island, countries that have formed an alliance to combat global warming, which threatens their existence through sea-level rise. |
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