- 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 estimate of the level of exposure of natural systems to pollutants below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the environment do not occur.
Industry:Environment
Waste generated when wool, cotton or synthetic fibres are dyed. The spent dye liquors contribute 15-30 per cent of the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) load from textile manufacturing.
Industry:Environment
Association of different organisms, both plants and animals, belonging to well-defined characteristic species that is determined by the conditions of the local environment or ecosystem.
Industry:Environment
Dissolving and wearing away of metal, caused by a chemical reaction, for example, between water and water contacting pipes, chemicals touching a metal surface, or two metals in contact.
Industry:Environment
Vented air coming out of a chimney after combustion in the burner. It can include nitrogen oxides, carbon oxides, water vapour, sulphur oxides, particles and other chemical pollutants.
Industry:Environment
Listing of animals threatened with extinction. The 1994 IUCN Red List, compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, includes more than 6,000 animal species known to be at risk.
Industry:Environment
Steps required to prevent erosion of the coast. The stabilization of beaches or dunes is achieved by mechanical or vegetational means, or through erecting heavy sea walls or revetments.
Industry:Environment
Measure of potential of the soil to absorb nutrient cations; guide to agriculturists regarding the application, in terms of quantity and frequency, of cation-rich fertilizers to the soil.
Industry:Environment
Any physical, chemical, biological or radiologic substance or matter that has an adverse effect on air, water, land/soil or biota. The term is frequently used synonymously with pollutant.
Industry:Environment
Gain of land from the sea, or wetlands, or other water bodies, and restoration of productivity or use to lands that have been degraded by human activities or impaired by natural phenomena.
Industry:Environment
