- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Exhaustible natural resources such as mineral resources that cannot be regenerated after exploitation.
Industry:Environment
Groundwater that is discharged into a stream channel as spring or percolated water. See also run-off.
Industry:Environment
Natural resources owned and managed collectively by a community or society rather than by individuals.
Industry:Environment
Total amount of chlorine in the atmosphere, which is a measure of potential damage to the ozone layer.
Industry:Environment
Ban imposed on construction in the inner part of a city so as to protect the urban natural environment.
Industry:Environment
Branch of biology that studies the relationship among different living organisms and their environment.
Industry:Environment
Upstream impounding reservoir that helps in flood control and releases water when river levels are low.
Industry:Environment
Aquifer in which groundwater is confined under pressure significantly greater than atmospheric pressure.
Industry:Environment
Dissolved oxygen required by organisms for the aerobic decomposition of organic matter present in water.
Industry:Environment
Person displaced owing to environmental causes, notably land loss and degradation, and natural disaster.
Industry:Environment
