世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Rankings recently published the results of statistics gathered from searches of their ecology portal site on the top environmental search keywords for March 2007.

For educational purposes, I’ll report both the Japanese term and the English translation.

Results

Rank	Last Month	日本語	ひらがな Reading	English Meaning
1	1	絶滅動物	ぜつめつどうぶつ	Extinction of animals
2	2	地球温暖化	ちきゅうおんだんか	Global warming
3	9	砂漠化	さばくか	Desertification
4	3	森林破壊	しんりんはかい	Deforestation
5	5	京都議定書	きょうとぎていしょ	Kyoto Protocol
6	4	オゾン層破壊	おぞんそうはかい	Ozone layer destruction
7	8	自然破壊	しぜんはかい	Destruction of nature
8	-	ゴミ分別	ごみぶんべつ	Separation of rubbish for disposal
9	7	ゴミ問題	ごみもんだい	Garbage problem
10	6	酸性雨	さんせいう	Acid rain