- 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.
Quantitative measure that describes ambient air quality. The index is obtained by combining figures for various air pollutants into a single measurement.
Industry:Environment
Waste containing mostly natural organic materials (remains of plants, animal excrement, biological sludge from waste-water treatment plants and so forth).
Industry:Environment
Entry of extraneous rainwater into a sewer system from sources other than infiltration, such as basement drains, manholes, storm drains and street washing.
Industry:Environment
Isolation of the soil from the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere by human impact, affecting local climates, soil functions, water balances and habitat.
Industry:Environment
Popular term for microbes developed through biotechnology that can degrade specific toxic chemicals at their source in toxic waste dumps or in groundwater.
Industry:Environment
Ratio of the volume of water in a water body to the whole volume of incoming waste. This factor affects the waste assimilation capacity of the water body.
Industry:Environment
Relationship between two species of animals in which one (the predator) actively hunts and lives off the meat and other body parts of the other (the prey).
Industry:Environment
Use of oxygen to break down organic waste or chemicals, such as cyanides, phenols and organic sulphur compounds, in sewage by bacterial and chemical means.
Industry:Environment
Insecticide highly toxic to biota, including humans. This is a persistent biochemical which accumulates in the food chain.
Industry:Environment
Exertion of a major controlling influence of one or more species upon all other species by virtue of their number, size, productivity or related activities.
Industry:Environment
