- Industry: NGO
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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.
Breakdown of organic matter by aerobic bacteria or fungi that changes the chemical make-up and physical appearance of the materials affected.
Industry:Environment
Dirt or rock removed from its original location because of its impact on the composition of the soil. It occurs in strip mining or dredging.
Industry:Environment
Disease associated with chronic exposure to asbestos fibres. The disease makes breathing progressively more difficult and can lead to death.
Industry:Environment
Length of time that a compound is able to remain in the environment after being introduced into it. Some compounds may persist indefinitely.
Industry:Environment
Luxuriant forest, generally composed of tall, broad-leaved evergreen trees, found in regions where annual rainfall exceeds 1,800 millimetres.
Industry:Environment
Assemblage of organisms characterized by a distinctive combination of species occupying a common environment and interfacing with one another.
Industry:Environment
Emission of gas from controlled tips consisting by volume of 50 per cent methane and 50 per cent carbon dioxide, sometimes with some nitrogen.
Industry:Environment
Observation well, drilled at hazardous waste management facilities for the purpose of testing the quality of the groundwater beneath the site.
Industry:Environment
Areas where mean annual rainfall is between about 250 and 600 millimetres (mm), rainfall seasonal and variable, and potential evaporation high.
Industry:Environment
Categories of water quality that encompass the overall state of the pollution or cleanliness of water. See also saprobic water classification.
Industry:Environment
